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Double historiography--France and Sierra Leone: the Luso-African ivories at the Quai Branly.(first word)(Critical essay)
The Musee du Quai Branly in Paris hosted a small but charming exhibition, "Ivoires d'Afrique dans les anciennes collections francaises," from February 19 to May 11, 2008. This show was put together by Ezio Bassani, who also wrote the short, well-illustrated catalogue. Over the past two decades, Bassani has established himself as an expert on the history of early European collections--particularly French and Italian--of African art. Both the present exhibition and the accompanying catalogue--really more a collection of short, scholarly essays--provide ample evidence of the depth of his knowledge about French collections from the seventeenth century onward. The ivories are ...
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