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Arts & Cultures 2006 – #7

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Description

Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, the Americas

Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.

380 pages, 369 colour and B/W illustration, 15 maps.

Published by Musée Barbier-Mueller and Somogy Editions d’art.

CONTENTS

Michel Carrier                      2500 Years Ago… An Ice Maiden in Siberia

Emmanuel Anati                    Parable of the Mask

Jean-Louis Zimmermann      Anatolia in the Age of Bronze. Solar Disks from Hatti

Emma Bunker                             Northern China in the First Millennium B.C.: Beifang Artifacts as Historical Documents

Santiago Uceda Castillo        Huaca de la Luna in Peru. Moche Ritual Sacrifice

Frank Willett                         A Chapter of Accidents. Archaeological Discoveries

Floriane Morin                      The Kingdoms of Ife and Benin

John Picton                            A Yoruba Mask and Its Sculptural Sources

Pierre Amrouche                   Aristide Courtois, the Bungalow Burner      &   Eight Masks Await Their Maker

Georges Breguet                  Life and Death of Tamu Rambu Yuliana, Sumba Princess    p. 200

Nguyên Viêt                      Bronze Situlas of Dông Son

Pieter Meyers                    Cast by Piece-Mould Technology

Anna Bennett                      Cast by Lost-Wax Technology

Catherine & Michel Orliac   On Intimate Terms with a Moai Miro from Easter Island

Gilles Bounoure and Patrice Allain  Jacques Viot in Korwar Country, West Papua

Nigel Barley                           Gap Year

 Monique Barbier-Mueller     Artist’s Shit: Contemporary Art

Claude Lévi-Strauss              Anthropology and National Identity

Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller      Confidentially Yours

Additional information

Weight 2.4 kg
Edition

English, French