A Legacy of Collecting: African and Oceanic Art From the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva At the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Hardcover

Viviane Et Al. Baeke

9782881040436: A Legacy of Collecting: African and Oceanic Art From the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva At the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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ISBN 10: 2881040438 ISBN 13: 9782881040436

Publisher: Muse�e Barbier-Mueller, 2009

In a collaborative effort between the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this publication and the exhibition it accompanies provide an overview of thirty-seven masterpieces of African and Oceanic art from the Barbier-Mueller collection. The catalogue entries, written by a range of specialists, describe the stylistic and contextual history of each work, and three introductory essays by member of the curatorial staff of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum explore their significance as part of an ongoing legacy of Western connoisseurship and collecting.

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PublisherMuse�e Barbier-Mueller
Publication date2009
ISBN 10 2881040438
ISBN 13 9782881040436
BindingHardcover
Edition number1
Number of pages151

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A legacy of collecting : African and Oceanic art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Authors: Viviane Baeke, Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, Joshua Bell, David Berliner, Ya�lle Biro, Daniela Bognolo, Claire Boullier, Alain-Michel Boyer, Jeremy Coote, Michael Gunn, Ingrid Heermann, Anita Herle, Lorenz Homberger, Steven Hooper, Kirk Huffman, Manuel Perez Jord�n, Christian Kaufmann, Eric Kjellgren, Alisa LaGamma, Floriane Morin, Catherine and Michel Orliac, Louis Perrois, Alain Person, Deborah Waite, Boris Wastiau

Published by Mus�e Barbier-Mueller, Gen�ve (2009)

ISBN 10: 2881040438 ISBN 13: 9782881040436

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 151 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm. In a collaborative effort between the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this publication and the exhibition it accompanies provide an overview of thirty-seven masterpieces of African and Oceanic art from the Barbier-Mueller collection. The catalogue entries, written by a range of specialists, describe the stylistic and contextual history of each work, and three introductory essays by members of the curatorial staff of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum explore their significance as part of an ongoing legacy of Western connoisseurship and collecting. Seller Inventory # PGMBM27

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