Arts anciens du Mali, Galerie Renaud Vanuxem,... Lot 4044

Arts anciens du Mali, Galerie Renaud Vanuxem, 2007 Renaud Vanuxem is an ethnologist by training and owner of a gallery in his own name exhibiting for 25 years a selection of objects from Africa, Oceania and the tribal Himalayas on a permanent basis. Arts anciens du Mali is the catalogue of the themed exhibition organized in 2007 by the gallery. Although it is mainly composed of photographs of the works, its first part consists of a text written by Bertrand Goy, a recognized specialist in the History of Primitive Arts. It tells the story of Malian art and the history of its discovery and collection by France from the twentieth century onwards, explains the beliefs and customs of the different ethnic groups that make up Mali, and raises the question of the place of myths and the role of masks and statues in these populations. Then the photographs of the works of art follow on from his writings and illustrate and complement them, just as they have given them back, at least in part, their life and history. Galerie Renaud Vanuxem, 2007, Paris. Bound. Hard cover. Colour photographs. In-folio. 171pp. Good condition.