Series (24 Episodes available)
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Producer(s):
ARTE FRANCE, LUDOVIC SEGARRA PRODUCTIONS, PROGRAM 33
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2010
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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Rights:
NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET
Attitudes to "primitive" art have run the whole gamut over the last five centuries.
This collection depictes - in no particular geographical or chronological order - 24 major works from Africa, Oceania, America, Asia and Europe. The objects reveal the collective imagination of their peoples and the world-view their peoples hold, as the viewer gains an understanding of the creation, the purpose and the history of each object, as well of the traditional and contemporary issues that surround it. These so called "primal" works, once mere objects of curiosity, were for a long time looked down upon before becoming simply a way for ethnographers to document peoples, but they have now been elevated to the status of veritable works of art.