TU FAIS PEUR TU EMERVEILLES

Description

For eight years, thanks to an exceptional budget and the generosity of many donors, the Quai Branly Museum was able to acquire more than 8,200 pieces. General heritage curator and head of the museum at Quai Branly Museum until July 2006, Germain Viatte makes here the principles of this policy acquisition and its implementation drunk in contemporary perspective and in relation to the dynamics driven by the quai Branly Museum. But beyond this context, it paints a vivid portrait of the origin of these unique collections for over a century, through the cultural institutions that are at the source: the Ethnographic Museum of the Trocadero, the museum Rights, the National museum of African and Oceanic Arts. With over 150 illustrations, often in full screen, this book provides a broad overview of art from the four continents presented to the museum: Oceania, Asia, Africa and the Americas.