Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly

by Sally Price

Book Overview

In 1990 Jacques Chirac, the future president of France and a passionate fan of non-European art, met Jacques Kerchache, a maverick art collector with the lifelong ambition of displaying African sculpture in the holy temple of French culture, the Louvre. Together they began laying plans, and ten years later African fetishes were on view under the same roof as the Mona Lisa. Then, in 2006, amidst a maelstrom of controversy and hype, Chirac presided...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226680703
• ISBN13: 9780226680705
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.9"