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The Guimet Museum and its friends: One hundred years of shared history.
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| N° d'inventaire | 29559 |
| Format | 19 x 24.7 |
| Détails | 310 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789461618504 |
Founded in 1889 by the industrialist and collector Emile Guimet (1836-1918), the Guimet Museum was originally intended to be a museum of the history of religions. In 1923, under the leadership of its new curator Joseph Hackin (1886-1941), the institution began a new era by turning its attention to the study and understanding of the arts and civilizations of Asia. The Society of Friends of the Guimet Museum (SAMG) was created that same year, with the aim of bringing together around the institution donors, private collectors, collaborators, scientists, and patrons wishing to actively participate in enriching the collections, through the financing of acquisitions or restorations of works.
The centenary exhibition, which opens in June 2023, traces the broad outlines of the relationship between the Guimet Museum and the Société des Amis, evoking some of its major figures: the Sanskritist Emile Senart (1847-1928), the financier David David-Weill (1871-1952), the explorer and Tibetologist Jacques Bacot (1877-1965) and the archaeologist and sinologist Paul Pelliot (1878-1945). It also highlights the highlights of his supporting role for the institution: during the Second World War and during the unrest that plunged Cambodia into chaos (1970-1975).
Since then, the SAMG has also spread, notably to the United States, with the American Friends of Guimet Museum, and as far away as Hong Kong. This century of shared history is presented in the narthex on the second floor of the museum, with unpublished archival documents as well as a selection of some thirty works that have entered the Guimet Museum's collections thanks to the generosity of the SAMG from 1933 to the present day. Some are now among the Guimet Museum's must-see masterpieces, covering all geographical areas, chronological periods, and art techniques: Chinese, Indian, and Tibetan statuary, paintings, prints, and art objects from Japan, shadow theater figures from Cambodia, and ancient and contemporary ceramics.
The centenary exhibition, which opens in June 2023, traces the broad outlines of the relationship between the Guimet Museum and the Société des Amis, evoking some of its major figures: the Sanskritist Emile Senart (1847-1928), the financier David David-Weill (1871-1952), the explorer and Tibetologist Jacques Bacot (1877-1965) and the archaeologist and sinologist Paul Pelliot (1878-1945). It also highlights the highlights of his supporting role for the institution: during the Second World War and during the unrest that plunged Cambodia into chaos (1970-1975).
Since then, the SAMG has also spread, notably to the United States, with the American Friends of Guimet Museum, and as far away as Hong Kong. This century of shared history is presented in the narthex on the second floor of the museum, with unpublished archival documents as well as a selection of some thirty works that have entered the Guimet Museum's collections thanks to the generosity of the SAMG from 1933 to the present day. Some are now among the Guimet Museum's must-see masterpieces, covering all geographical areas, chronological periods, and art techniques: Chinese, Indian, and Tibetan statuary, paintings, prints, and art objects from Japan, shadow theater figures from Cambodia, and ancient and contemporary ceramics.
Founded in 1889 by the industrialist and collector Emile Guimet (1836-1918), the Guimet Museum was originally intended to be a museum of the history of religions. In 1923, under the leadership of its new curator Joseph Hackin (1886-1941), the institution began a new era by turning its attention to the study and understanding of the arts and civilizations of Asia. The Society of Friends of the Guimet Museum (SAMG) was created that same year, with the aim of bringing together around the institution donors, private collectors, collaborators, scientists, and patrons wishing to actively participate in enriching the collections, through the financing of acquisitions or restorations of works.
The centenary exhibition, which opens in June 2023, traces the broad outlines of the relationship between the Guimet Museum and the Société des Amis, evoking some of its major figures: the Sanskritist Emile Senart (1847-1928), the financier David David-Weill (1871-1952), the explorer and Tibetologist Jacques Bacot (1877-1965) and the archaeologist and sinologist Paul Pelliot (1878-1945). It also highlights the highlights of his supporting role for the institution: during the Second World War and during the unrest that plunged Cambodia into chaos (1970-1975).
Since then, the SAMG has also spread, notably to the United States, with the American Friends of Guimet Museum, and as far away as Hong Kong. This century of shared history is presented in the narthex on the second floor of the museum, with unpublished archival documents as well as a selection of some thirty works that have entered the Guimet Museum's collections thanks to the generosity of the SAMG from 1933 to the present day. Some are now among the Guimet Museum's must-see masterpieces, covering all geographical areas, chronological periods, and art techniques: Chinese, Indian, and Tibetan statuary, paintings, prints, and art objects from Japan, shadow theater figures from Cambodia, and ancient and contemporary ceramics.
The centenary exhibition, which opens in June 2023, traces the broad outlines of the relationship between the Guimet Museum and the Société des Amis, evoking some of its major figures: the Sanskritist Emile Senart (1847-1928), the financier David David-Weill (1871-1952), the explorer and Tibetologist Jacques Bacot (1877-1965) and the archaeologist and sinologist Paul Pelliot (1878-1945). It also highlights the highlights of his supporting role for the institution: during the Second World War and during the unrest that plunged Cambodia into chaos (1970-1975).
Since then, the SAMG has also spread, notably to the United States, with the American Friends of Guimet Museum, and as far away as Hong Kong. This century of shared history is presented in the narthex on the second floor of the museum, with unpublished archival documents as well as a selection of some thirty works that have entered the Guimet Museum's collections thanks to the generosity of the SAMG from 1933 to the present day. Some are now among the Guimet Museum's must-see masterpieces, covering all geographical areas, chronological periods, and art techniques: Chinese, Indian, and Tibetan statuary, paintings, prints, and art objects from Japan, shadow theater figures from Cambodia, and ancient and contemporary ceramics.