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

Title
Paris primitive : Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly / Sally Price.
Author
Price, Sally.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Description
x, 239 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
Subject
  • Musée du quai Branly > History
  • Ethnological museums and collections > Paris > History
  • Ethnology > France > History
  • France > Social life and customs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-239).
Contents
Jacques and Jacques -- The primal moment -- The president's secret garden -- The passionate connoisseur -- Good-bye, Columbus -- Museums in the city of light -- The state of culture -- The grandest museum in the world -- The move to the Louvre -- Down with hierarchy -- Getting started -- Cohabitation -- In-house rumblings -- A dream come true -- Artifactual question marks -- The organ donors -- Trouble at the Trocadero -- Resistance movement -- Colonies and crocodiles -- Musical chairs -- An anti-palace on the Seine -- The turn to concrete -- Preparing the transplants -- Behind the Hairy Wall -- Glass, gardens, and aborigines -- A river runs through it -- Art of darkness -- Epilogue : cultures in dialogue? -- Back matter -- An American in Paris.
ISBN
  • 9780226680682 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226680681 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226680705 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0226680703 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007011572
OCLC
  • 122309104
  • ocn122309104
  • SCSB-5365741
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries