LE PRIX INTERNATIONAL BOOKS 130 le prix international du livre d’ART TRIBAL 2015 Un événement organisé par Tribal Art magazine en partenariat avec Sotheby’s w w w. pri xp il a t .com PILAT of artistic traditions of Africa, Oceania, Asia, and the Americas. An international jury examines and evaluates the works—both monographs and exhibition catalogs—published in French and English between October and September according to well-defi ned criteria, which include: • The importance and originality of the work’s contribution to knowledge in the fi eld it covers • The care with which the book has been produced in terms of the quality of its images, its layout, and its readability, coupled with the effort made to make its content accessible to a wide audience • The quality of the fi nished product (photo reproduction, printing, and binding) • The work’s availability (distribution and price) 2015 was an especially good year, thanks to a large number of major museum exhibitions around the world. Five of the preselected titles were exhibition catalogs produced by the curators of those shows. The sixth, African Art in the Barnes Foundation, addresses an iconic private collection that had not previously been the subject of a monograph. As for the two prize-winning works, more information is presented on the following pages. They were selected because they both promote the concept of African art as dynamic, living, and open to external infl uence, rather than frozen in confi ning tradition, as so many works have for so long described it. Lastly, in recognition of the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of Carl Einstein’s Negerplastik, the fi rst work to address African art as art, the jury awarded an honorable mention to Arts de l’Afrique, edited by Jacqueline Chambon, an anthology of essays by Einstein on the subject, translated and presented by Liliane Meffre and enhanced by captions and additional notes by Jean-Louis Paudrat. Seven Years of Recognition By Elena Martínez-Jacquet On December 1, 2009, the winners of the fi rst Prix International du Livre d’Art Tribal were announced. La Collection – Musée du Quai Branly (edited by Yves le Fur) and James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacifi c (edited by Adrienne L. Kaeppler), winners of the French and English categories, respectively, inaugurated this literary prize that has since then been awarded to seventeen publications and has recognized the outstanding publishing achievements of such institutions as the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva, the Musée Dapper in Paris, and Marc Léo Felix’s Congo Basin Art History Research Center, the latter for his eight-volume work White Gold—Black Hands: Ivory Sculpture in Congo. Created and sponsored by Tribal Art magazine in association with Sotheby’s, the objective of this prize is as simple as it is important: to highlight the best publications on tribal art that appear every year, and in that way to support the efforts of publishers and authors who produce works that offer their readers new insight into the limitless wealth EVENT PHOTOS: Photographs of the awards ceremony announcing the winners of the 2015 International Tribal Art Book Prize, held November 27, 2015, at the Sotheby’s winter sale preview cocktail reception in Paris. First photo, from left to right: Michel Bohbot (juror), Germain Viatte (juror), Liliane Meffre (co-winner of the honorable mention for her book on Carl Einstein), Alain Weill (winner of the French category), Jean-Louis Paudrat (co-winner of the honorable mention for his book on Carl Einstein), Pierre Moos (jury president and general director of Tribal Art magazine), Elena Martínez-Jacquet (juror and editor-inchief of Tribal Art magazine’s French edition), and Marguerite de Sabran (juror and director of the Arts of Africa and Oceania department of Sotheby’s, Paris). Photos courtesy of Sotheby’s, Paris. For more information on the Prix International du Livre d’Art Tribal, visit: www.prixpilat.com
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