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Intimate conversations : African miniatures

Title
Intimate conversations : African miniatures / John and Nicole Dintenfass ; texts by Heinrich Schweizer and Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter ; photographs by Vincent Girier-Dufournier
Publication
  • Milan : 5 Continents, [2017]
  • ©2017
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  • Dintenfass, John.
  • Dintenfass, Nicole.
  • Schweizer, Heinrich C.
  • Geoffroy-Schneiter, Bérénice
  • Girier-Dufournier, Vincent
Description
333 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm
Summary
Nicole and John Dintenfass collection, well known and whose pieces have been reproduced in many publications, is based on aesthetics.They have collected with passion, diligence, depth and rigor monumental sculptures and wooden miniatures, from most regions of Africa. Focusing on pieces of the highest artistic quality, this book shares the collectors personal point of view about collecting and offers to readers anecdotes that offer an additional insight of this world to future and present collectors in their search for African art. Collecting is a passion that often leads to intimate inner conversations or to emotional experiences with the objects themselves. Moreover many collectors share their unique experience of joy and appreciation with 20th century artists who also collected African art and who generously imparted advice, suggestions and support in responding to the collector's enthusiasm. Thanks to the multiple beautiful and sensitive photographs for each object the viewer has a chance to form an intimate conversation that goes back to contact with those African master carvers that have strongly influenced modern realism, Cubism and Expressionism.
Uniform Title
Conversations intimes. English.
Subject
  • Dintenfass, Nicole > Art collections > Catalogs
  • Dintenfass, John > Art collections > Catalogs
  • Small sculpture > Africa > Catalogs
  • Wood sculpture, African > Catalogs
  • Sculpture > Private collections > New York (State) > New York > Catalogs
  • Art > Private collections
  • Sculpture > Private collections
  • Wood sculpture, African
  • New York (State) > New York
Genre/Form
Catalogs.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 329).
Language (note)
  • Translated from the French.
Call Number
Sc+ G 18-55
ISBN
  • 8874397747
  • 9788874397747
  • 8874397461
  • 9788874397464
OCLC
973800804
Title
Intimate conversations : African miniatures / John and Nicole Dintenfass ; texts by Heinrich Schweizer and Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter ; photographs by Vincent Girier-Dufournier
Publisher
Milan : 5 Continents, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 329).
Language
Translated from the French.
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Dintenfass, John.
Dintenfass, Nicole.
Schweizer, Heinrich C., contributor.
Geoffroy-Schneiter, Bérénice, contributor.
Girier-Dufournier, Vincent, photographer.
Research Call Number
Sc+ G 18-55
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