Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly Book

Opening Notes     vii
Where to Begin     ix
Jacques and Jacques
The Primal Moment     1
The President's Secret Garden     5
The Passionate Connoisseur     11
Good-bye, Columbus     19
Museums in the City of Light
The State of Culture     23
The Grandest Museum in the World     29
The Move to the Louvre
Down with Hierarchy     33
Getting Started     42
Cohabitation     48
In-House Rumblings     54
A Dream Come True     59
Artifactual Question Marks     67
The Organ Donors
Trouble at the Trocadero     81
Resistanc Movement     88
Colonies and Crocodiles     98
Musical Chairs     103
An Anti-Palace on the Seine
The Turn to Concrete     111
Preparing the Transplants     116
Behind the Hairy Wall     119
Glass, Gardens, and Aborigines     129
A River Runs Through It     140
Art of Darkness     150
Epilogue: Cultures in Dialogue?     169
Back Matter
An American in Paris     179
Contributing Voices     183
Notes     187
Bibliography     221