Result of the research : 'rivet'
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by Peter Walsh
"MEMORY: Luba Art and the Making of History," one of the largest and most important exhibitions of African art ever to appear in the Boston area, will be on view at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center from February 5 through June 7, 1998. Organized by The Museum for African Art in New York City, this critically acclaimed exhibition of exceptionally beautiful artworks explores for the first time in an American museum exhibition the intricate and fascinating culture of the Luba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). More than 80 important and beautiful objects are included in the show.
Since it opened in New York City in February 1996, MEMORY has received enormous popular and critical praise. The New York Times described it as "everything an exhibition ought to be. Visually riveting and built on a theme as philosophically complex as it is poetic, it has the pace and pull of an unfolding epic... MEMORY... brings to vivid life an art that is both a wonder of formal invention... and a sovereign vehicle for profound ideas."
MEMORY will include standing figures, staffs of office, ceremonial weapons, masks, divining tools and amulets as well as fine examples of lukasas, or Luba "memory boards," all of which the Luba used as elaborate visual symbols to record their cultural memories, histories, traditions, and royal lineages. The show and its accompanying catalogue are the culmination of a decade of intense and path-breaking research and study
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GRIAULE ( Marcel, 1898-1956 )
Ethnologue français. En 1931, soutenu par Paul Rivet, il organisa une expédition de Dakar à Djibouti au cours de laquelle li explora le pays Dogon. En 1941 il devint directeur de l’institut des langues et civilisations orientales et il obtint en 1942 la chaire d’ethnographie de la Sorbonne. Sa mission la plus importante fut sans nul doute celle de 1946-1947 au Mali. Ses entretiens avec Ogotemmeli lui révélèrent le rôle déterminant des mythes dans l’organisation sociale des Dogon et furent prétexte à la rédaction de son œuvre majeure : «Dieu d’eau» (1948). Parmi ses autres publications : "Masques dogons" ( 1938), "Renard pale. Ethnologie des Dogon" écrit en collaboration avec G. Dieterlen (1965).
Dieu d'eau, entretiens avec Ogotemmêli ( Fiche de
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Paul Rivet
Paul Rivet (1876-1958) est un ethnologue français. Il est à l'origine de la théorie selon laquelle l'homme sud-américain viendrait d'Australie et de Mélanésie.
Un grand ethnologue
Dans cette perspective, Paul Rivet fonda un grand musée d'ethnologie, le Musée de l'Homme, à Paris.
Médecin de formation, Rivet prit part à une expédition scientifique, la Seconde Mission Géodésique française, qui arriva en Équateur en 1901. À la fin de cette mission, il resta en Amérique du Sud pendant 6 ans, observant les habitants des vallées interandines. À son retour à Paris, Rivet, engagé comme assistant au Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, mit de l'ordre dans ses observations sud-américaines.
Ses notes furent publiées conjointement à celles de René Vernaus, alors directeur du Musée, en deux parties, entre 1912 et 1922, sous le titre Ethnographie ancienne de l'Équateur. En 1926, Rivet contribua à l'établissement de l'Institut d'ethnologie à Paris, où il joua un rôle-clé dans la formation de nombreux ethnologues. En 1928, il succéda à René Vernaus. Il dirige le Musée d'Ethnographie du
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PARIS - JOSEPHINE BAKER - GEORGES-HENRI RIVIERE
Joséphine Baker (1906-1975), artiste de music-hall et Georges-Henri Rivière (1897-1985), ethnographe français, au musée ethnographique du Trocadéro. Paris, juin 1933. LIP-6259-052
Portrait de Thérèse Rivière © musée du quai Branly, photo Jacques Faublée
Soeur de Georges-Henri
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Martine Pinard
Ecole du Louvre
Spécialité Arts de l'Afrique
Janvier 2008
" L'Art nègre ? Connais pas " ! Picasso, 1920
I. Préambule
Au début du XXème siècle et plus précisément vers les années 1905-1907, des peintres commencèrent à collectionner des sculptures d'Afrique et d'Océanie. Qui sont ces collectionneurs de ce qu'on a appelé l' " art nègre " (terme qu'il faudra définir) ; comment, dans quel contexte, ont eu lieu les premières acquisitions ?
Cette première question en induit naturellement une autre : s'il y eut un engouement de prime abord (semble-t-il) " artistique ", qui étaient les premiers collectionneurs-marchands, nécessairement devaient être présents dans le circuit de ces acquisitions ?
Enfin, de manière plus générale, le dossier soulève en toile de fond, la question du changement de regard pour l'art africain et plus généralement l'art des " Autres " sous l'angle de l'impact de cet engouement du début du XX ème siècle. Peut-on esquisser une " trajectoire "
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Sculpture dedicated to Gou divinity of wrought iron and war
Work iron 168cm in height made before 1858 by Akati Ekplékendo
Current Republic of Benin
Lauren Papet, Ecole du Louvre
Arrival in French collections and identification problems
This statue has been reported in France in 1894 by Captain Eugene Fonssagrives following the conquest of Dahomey. It belonged to the spoils of war found in the palaces of Abomey, abandoned by the fleeing King Behanzin, who himself had perhaps made on the side in preparation for the French attack in the hope that the god help protect the kingdom on its most vulnerable border. She was then given directly to the Trocadero Museum of Ethnography, the current Museum of Man (recorded April 30, 1894).
First Fonssagrives was presented as was a representation of Ebo, patron god of Ouidah thesis refuted by Maurice Delafosse in 1894, indicating that the divinity of Ouidah is not the serpent but Ebo Dan. The name "Ebo" would have probably been given Fonssagrives response when he asked what the object (Bo meaning receptacle of supernatural forces). She was named Gou, its present name after World War II, his resemblance to the voodoo (god) of iron and protector of the forge, metal and war have been considered fairly obvious.
Technical Achievement
Government also has a variety of techniques to work with iron: forged, rolled, hammered, nailed and riveted.
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P R E F A C E
In one of the chaos of rocks the most amazing of Africa, has a population of farmer-warriors who was one of the last of the French domain to lose its independence.
For most whites in West Africa, the Dogon are dangerous men, if not the most backward of the Federation. Ilspassent to practice human sacrifice and even to defend themselves better against all the outside influences that they live a difficult country. Some writers have told their small fears when supposedly daring excursions. From these legends and the pretext of revolts often due to misunderstandings, it has sometimes taken in exile of entire villages.
In short, the Dogon represent one of the finest examples of primitive savage and this opinion is shared by some black Muslims who, intellectually, are not better equipped than whites to appreciate those of their fellow faithful to ancestral traditions. Only officials who have assumed the heavy task of administering these men have learned to love them.
The author of this book and its many teammates attend the Dogon past fifteen years. They published the work of these men who are now the people's best-known French Sudan: The Souls of the Dogon (G. Dieterlen, 1941), The Currency (S. OF GANAY 1941), Masks (M. Griaule, 1938) have brought to scholarly evidence that blacks lived on complex ideas, but ordered, on systems of institutions and rituals where nothing is left to chance or whim. This work, already ten years ago, drew
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