Floriane morin eds (2 Ergebnisse)

Paris, Mona Bismarck Foundation / Somogy & Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, [2006]. 470 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover, d./j. 4to.Richly illustrated art book that accompanied an exhibition of eighty masterpieces of New Guinean art from the Barbier-Mueller Collection, with an equal emphasis on works from Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of Papua. The exhibition presents the most important pieces from the collection, which bear witness to the extraordinary skills of the New Guinean indigenous population (wood sculptures, objects made of tortoiseshell, tapa, and stone). In addition to an introduction, this work contains 17 essays in French by various authors, an extensive catalogue, and a bibliography.…

[Paris, Somogy Editions d'Art & [Geneva], Musée Barbier-Mueller, [2006]. 470 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. Dust jacket with very light shelwear at the corners.Richly illustrated art book that accompanied an exhibition of eighty masterpieces of New Guinean art from the Barbier-Mueller collection, with equal emphasis on works from Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of Papua. The exhibition presents the most important pieces from the collection, which bear witness to the extraordinary skills of the New Guinean indigenous population (wood sculptures, objects made of tortoiseshell, tapa, and stone). In addition to an introduction, this work contains 17 essays in English by various authors, an extensive catalogue, and a bibliography.…