Description
Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, the Americas
Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.
300 pages, 224 colours and B/W illustrations, 7 maps.
Published by Musée Barbier-Mueller and Somogy Éditions d’art.
Distributed by Art Stock.
Contents
Emmanuel Anati The Symbolism of Prehistoric Art
Michel Carrier Ötzi, The Mummy out from the Cold
Jean-Louis Zimmermann From Security Pin to Dress Brooch
Christoph Uehlinger A 6000 Year-Old Basalt “Idol”
Anna Casas In the Heart of Barcelona: the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art
Helmut Schindler Masks of the Upper Amazon
Beatriz de la Fuente Head Number 8 from San Lorenzo: An Example of Olmec Humanism
Manuel A. Jordán Pérez Chikwekwe: Hornbill Mask of the Chokwe
David Berliner (Re)discovering Landuma Masks (Boké, Guinea-Conakry)
Three Views on an African Masterpiece:
Monique Barbier-Mueller Encounter
Louis Perrois The Mbédé Ancestor of the “Abolo Master”. A Masterpiece of African Art in its Historical, Social and Stylistic Context
David Berliner The Mbédé Today
Ian Glover Decorated Bronze Urns: Splendid Enigmas From Southeast Asian Later Prehistory
Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller Miquel Barceló: Dogon in the Balearics
Rémi Labrusse Primitive Miró
Nigel Barley Visions of Paradise
Monique Barbier-Mueller A Miracle, African-Style
Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller Confidentially Yours
