ARTS PREMIERS, ARTS CLANDESTINS. (French)

The works of an from other civilizations, the « primitive arts » from the past till today, have only really been confronted as such with those of the western world for about a century and we shall go as for as to say that now they are exhibited in a more and more attractive way let's refer to the future Quai Branly museum in Paris, in 2004). Consequently, there has been enough time to understand them and from now on we can no longer think of them only in an ethnologic or aesthetic way. These works of art, for each one of us. open a secret passage into an area of questioning and therefore of freedom, so that we can now always bring into question the definitions of art we would have been tempted to believe as being definitively accepted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Les œuvres des autres civilisations, les « arts premiers » d'hier ià aujour-d'hui, n'ont été véritablement confrontées en tant que telles aux œuvres d'art occidentales que depuis an siècle environ, jusqu'à être maintenant de plus en plus mises en scène (voir le futur Musée du Quai Branly, à Paris en 2004). Un recul nous est donc acquis qui permet désormais de ne plus les penser de façon exclusivement ethnologique ou bien esthélique. Ces œuvres ouvrent clandestinement à chacun un passage vers un territoire de questionnement et done de liberté, pour remettre en cause de façon toujours actuelle les définitions de l'Art que l'on aurait été tenté de croire définitivement admises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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