Research Catalog

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.

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Details

Additional Authors

• 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.

Alternative Title

African miniatures

Subject

• Dintenfass, Nicole > Art collections > Catalogs
• Dintenfass, John > Art collections > Catalogs
• Privatsammlung
• Kleinplastik
• Small sculpture, African > Catalogs
• Wood sculpture, African > Catalogs
• Sculpture > Private collections > New York (State) > New York > Catalogs
• Afrika

Genre/Form

Catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 329).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

In the palm of your hand: a phenomenology of African miniature sculptures / Heinrich Schweizer -- The psychology of the collector / Nicole Dintenfass -- Intimate conversations / John Dintenfass -- The standing man: musical variations on the human body / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter -- Silent choreographies / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter -- Maternities, couples, and Janus figures: the sacredness of life / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter -- The dance of the masks / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter -- Following the thread: pulleys to weave the world / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter -- Prestige objects: majestic design / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter -- In the beginning was the animal / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter -- Power and divination: on the other side of the mirror / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter -- Transcendence: beyond African art / Bérénice Geoffrey-Schneiter.

ISBN

• 8874397747
• 9788874397747
• 8874397461
• 9788874397464

OCLC

• 973800804
• SCSB-10058297

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library