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dc.contributor.authorRémy Jadinon, R.
dc.contributor.editorJulien Volper
dc.coverage.spatialAfrica
dc.coverage.spatialAfrica - Central
dc.coverage.spatialCongo, The Democratic Republic of the
dc.coverage.temporalMusic instruments
dc.date2022
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-14T13:26:36Z
dc.date.available2024-03-14T13:26:36Z
dc.identifier.isbn978-9-0858-6777-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/12981
dc.descriptionThis book, published on the occasion of the museum's opening, presents a collection of 77 important works from the Royal Museum for Central Africa's collections, analysed by academics, curators and connoisseurs of African art. Many of the works are included in the room dedicated to the temporary exhibition Art without Parallels. Other pieces, however, are related to the permanent rooms or open a window onto the hushed world of the RMCA's reserves, which are largely unknown to the general public. Coming from the Congo, but also from other countries such as Angola or Gabon, these pieces selected by researcher and curator Julien Volper are sometimes material witnesses of disappeared cultures dating from the 8th to the 10th century, or even from several tens of thousands of years ago! However, the majority of them belong to the recent period of the 19th - 20th centuries. The masks, statues, sculpted ivories, weapons, vessels and other artefacts on display all bear witness to a real creativity that the theorist Vladimir Markov summed up so well in 1919: "[...] this [African] art has no equal in the world".
dc.languagefra
dc.publisherMRAC & BAI
dc.titleharpe kundi
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.subject.frascatiArts
dc.subject.frascatiHistory and Archaeology
dc.subject.frascatiLanguages and Literature
dc.subject.frascatiPhilosophy, Ethics and Religion
dc.subject.frascatiSocial sciences
dc.subject.frascatiSociology
dc.audienceGeneral Public
dc.subject.freeCulture & Society
dc.source.titleArt sans pareil. Objects merveilleux du Musée royal de l Afrique centrale
dc.source.page176
Orfeo.peerreviewedNo
dc.identifier.rmca6211


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