Tribal sculpture
Subtitle: masterpieces from Africa, South East Asia, and the Pacific in the Barbier Mueller Museum
By: by Douglas Newton, Hermione Waterfield ; photographs by Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini.
Contributors: Newton, Douglas, 1920-; Waterfield, Hermione.; Ferrazzini, Pierre-Alain.
Publisher: Vendome Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Collection Barbier-Müller -- Catalogs.; Sculpture, Primitive -- Catalogs.; Sculpture -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- Catalogs.
Description: The quality and variety of the Barbier-Mueller collection of ethnic sculpture are astonishing, and only the finest pieces were selected for this all-color, oversize book. These striking pieces came from a vast number of small local cultures, of almost infinite variety, from an enormous expanse of the Old World, more specifically from Africa, Indonesia, especially the tribal areas - today known as Irian Jaya and New Guinea. Due to their ritual use, the rigors of tropical climates and the depradations of missionaries and conquerors, fine pieces have always been a rarity, as they were generally linked to the universal requirements of statehood and religion. Some remarkable pieces, however, did make up part of daily life.