Collections en Rhône-Alpes
Edited by Laurick Zerbini
Text by Cyrille Bela, Danielle Maurice, Claude Prudhomme, Yaya Savané, and Manuel Valentin
This book takes the example of collections in the Rhône-Alpes region to address the issues of the acquisition and status of African art in museums in the West and the position adopted by the art market in its regard. The authors, who are African and European academics and museum curators, discuss relations with Africa, which have consisted of tension, rejection, and cooperation in varying degrees, the interplay between missionary and anthropological involvement and the role of Madeleine Rousseau in the recognition of African cultures and art. They also explore the manifold facets of African art, the image that museums convey of their subject, and the question of contemporary African art.
Laurick Zerbini is senior lecturer in the history of African art at Université Lumière Lyon 2, as part of the RESEA team in the LARHRA Laboratory (UMR 5180).
Cyrille Bela is senior lecturer in African art at the University of Yaoundé 1, in Cameroon.
Danielle Maurice is studying for her PhD at EHESS, in Paris, and is a member of CEAF/EHESS.
Claude Prudhomme is professor of contemporary history at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, as part of the RESEA team in the LARHRA Laboratory (UMR 5180).
Yaya Savané is a former curator in Abidjan Museum and member of the Académie des Sciences, des Arts, des Cultures d’Afrique et des Diasporas Africaines (ASCAD) of Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire as well as Director of the Association visage du musée africain (AVMA) and member of the International Association of Art Critics, in Abidjan.
Manuel Valentin is senior lecturer in African ethnology, MNHN, as part of UMA105/UMR “patrimoines locaux.”
