Mon truc en plumes, plumes de zoiseaux !

mercredi 16 novembre 2016

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Large dance headdress, Paris, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

Photo (C) musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrick Gries / Bruno Descoings
Zizi Jeanmaire, Sam Lévin, Charenton-le-Pont, Médiathèque de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine

Photo (C) Ministère de la Culture - Médiathèque du Patrimoine, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Sam Lévin
Fragment of aeroplane belonging to Willis, insignia of Lafayette's squadron, Musée franco-américain, Château de Blérancourt

Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (Château de Blérancourt) / Gérard Blot
Satin and feathers, Emmanuel Sougez, Paris, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d'art moderne – Centre de création industrielle

(C) Emmanuel Sougez, Photo (C) Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais
Portrait of a man trimming a goose feather, H. van Rijn Rembrandt, Allemagne, Cassel, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister

Photo (C) BPK, Berlin, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / image MHK
Feathers, Marseille, musée d'Arts africains, océaniens, amérindiens

Photo (C) Ville de Marseille, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / David Giancatarina
Pin, Paris, musée Guimet - musée national des Arts asiatiques

Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée Guimet, Paris) / Thierry Ollivier
Parody of ritual of marriage among gay couples, Raphaël Gaillarde,Paris, Raphaël Gaillarde collection

Photo (C) Collection Raphaël Gaillarde, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Raphaël Gaillarde
Ceremonial hat, Paris, musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

Photo (C) musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Michel Urtado / Thierry Ollivier
Headdress, Marseille, musée d'Arts africains, océaniens, amérindiens

Photo (C) Ville de Marseille, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / David Giancatarina
Tiara, Paris, musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

Photo (C) musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Michel Urtado / Thierry Ollivier

Musée du Quai Branly showcases the art of pre-Columbian plumassiers, particularly the symbolism of the feather in pre-Columbian America.

In Europe, from the Middle Ages onwards, plumassiers decorated hats and clothing for noblemen. At the turn of the century, cabarets and music halls and later, Haute Couture, became the plumassiers' new customers. This very feminine work is now disappearing: of 425 plumassiers in Paris, only five now remain, making a living from Haute Couture, shows and creative industries.

And let's not forget the other, essential use of birds' feathers which, shaped for writing, soon replaced the reed pen. Depending on the effect required, people used feathers from the goose, the crow, the turkey or the capercaillie.

Plumes, visions de l'Amérique précolombienne at Musée du Quai Branly, from 22 November 2016 to 29 January 2017

See on Agence Photo website:

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