Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter
Écrivaine
Diplômée des Études supérieures de l’École du Louvre et helléniste de formation, Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter est journaliste et critique d’art. Elle est l’auteure de nombreux livres sur les arts premiers et la parure non-occidentale et a été co-commissaire de l’exposition « Voyages dans ma tête, la collection des coiffes ethniques d’Antoine de Galbert », qui s’est tenue en 2010 à la maison rouge, à Paris.
Parures
Christine Mathieu / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter
Flat like pancakes or slender like medieval hennins, made of simple cotton or adorned with gold and silver thread, Norman headdresses accompanied births, marriages, and funerals, signaling to all who saw them a person's belonging to a region or village and revealing their rank, fortune, and marital status.
In compiling a visual inventory of these “oddities” of lace and ribbons, artist Christine Mathieu has become both an archaeologist and an ethnologist. As light and poetic as an Amazonian feather crown, as unusual and bizarre as Papuan headgear, Norman headdresses were transformed under her lens into exotic “adornments from the antipodes.” And the journey is fascinating...
Parures
21 x 27.5 cm, 80 pages, approximately 45 color reproductions, paperback with dust jacket
Graphic design: Géraldine Nassieu-Maupas
ISBN: 9782919507764