Madonna of the Mountains (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781467959421)

When President Jacques Chirac announced his intention to create a new museum to be called the 'The Musée du Quai Branly', a team of art researchers is assembled to map the national inventory of ethnographic artefacts, historical objects and artworks held in national and regional art galleries and museums all over France and in France's colonies. The best exhibits of 'L'Art Primitif', 'Art Sauvage' and 'Art Exotique' from these collections are to be selected for exhibition in the President's new museum in Paris, which is to be one of the largest museums in the world. When Dr Marie Claire Poulenc, Curator of Pacific Arts, Musée des Arts de La Rochelle, joins this team she finds a forgotten statue of a Papuan woman wearing a grass skirt and carrying a baby in her billum. This is a work of vigorous imagination and high artistic expression: a masterpiece rivalling the finest examples of Western art. Dr Poulenc is instructed to find out all she can about this mysterious statue, to fully document her provenance so that she can be included in the 'Masterpieces of Oceania' exhibit at the opening of the Musée du Quai Branly. Dr Poulenc's quest takes her on a voyage of self-discovery. She cruises down the Sepik River in a motorised canoe and journeys into the wild mountains of Papua New Guinea where she discovers that this statue, the Madonna of the Mountains, can perform miracles.

Author: Pierre Cochrane
ISBN-10: 1467959421
ISBN-13: 9781467959421
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2011
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.32d