First arts : recognition's time - Découvertes Gallimard (n° 393)

Written in French.

« The most striking quality of primitive art, common to all, is its intense vitality. It is something that people have done in direct and immediate response to life": so said the sculptor Henry Moore in 1941, but many other artists of the twentieth century have contributed to change...

Written in French.

« The most striking quality of primitive art, common to all, is its intense vitality. It is something that people have done in direct and immediate response to life": so said the sculptor Henry Moore in 1941, but many other artists of the twentieth century have contributed to change the view of their contemporaries on the productions of non-Western societies.

An approach which marks the end of a dogma: the supremacy of the art of the developed civilizations on what one called "exotic curiosities ».

What remained was to give these exceptional art objects from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas the opportunity to meet their public.
This has been done, with their presentation at the Louvre and the Musée du Quai Branly.

Marine Degli and Marie Mauzé retrace this long path towards the recognition of primitive arts.

French
160 pages

Gallimard / Rmn - Grand Palais
Collection Découvertes Gallimard (n° 393), Série Arts