GIORGI Yannick (1950-....) Les masques vivants,... Lot 4043

GIORGI Yannick (1950-....) Les masques vivants, patrimoine Nuna. Méolans-Revel, Éditions Désiris, 2001. The book is the result of an encounter between the author and an initiate and bears witness to the rich heritage that is still alive today, represented by the masks that are taken out during traditional festivals in Nuna villages in Burkina Faso. Author Yannick GIORGI (1950-....) is a graduate of the Grenoble School of Fine Arts, a visual artist and photographer, passionate about masks, and co-organizer of the Nuna Mask Festival in Burkina Faso since 1995, the largest gathering of masks in the country. After discovering the African continent at a very young age, the author lived in many African countries and worked in Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso on development projects in the agricultural, health and heritage sectors. This book on living traditions is the result of this passion and the trust placed in the author to photograph the various mask outings in the Nuna villages - a beautiful way of illustrating the thinking of ethnologist Marcel Griaule: "A mask that doesn't work is not a mask. " Unpaginated, bound, pp. of colour illustrations, colour illustrated dust jacket.