AFRICAN & OCEANIC ART FROM THE BARBIER-MUELLER MUSEUM GENEVA MET EXHIBIT 2009

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A LEGACY OF COLLECTING:  AFRICAN AND OCEANIC ART FROM THE BARBIER-MUELLER MUSEUM, GENEVA AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Exhibition in 2009.  Gorgeous 152 page hardcover in like new condition with protective Brodart cover.
In a collaborative effort between the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this publication and the exhibition it accompanies provide an overview of thirty-seven masterpieces of African and Oceanic art from the Barbier-Mueller collection. The catalogue entries, written by a range of specialists, describe the stylistic and contextual history of each work, and three introductory essays by member of the curatorial staff of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum explore their significance as part of an ongoing legacy of Western connoisseurship and collecting.
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