Arts du mythe
2004 26mDocumentary
7.2
Apart from any geographical or chronological classification, the “Arts of the myth” collection presents in this box 22 films. 22 major works from Africa, the Americas, Oceania, Asia and Europe. Each object, by providing the keys to its creation, its uses, its history, as well as the traditional and contemporary artistic issues that animate it, reveals the imagination of a people, its vision of the world. Object of curiosities, long disdained, then considered as simple ethnographic documents, these so-called "primitive" works are finally elevated to the rank of true works of art. Films dedicated to the "primary arts": each episode presents a work, the myth to which it is linked, its use, its history and the way we look at it today, here and there ...
