Table of Contents

Introduction; The history of Italian collections; The Museo Pigorini and the Berman Collection; Interview with Carlo Monzino; Interview with Mario Meneghini and Aldo Tagliaferri; Interview with Ezio Bassani; The first acquisition (by Franca Scamperle); Chronology/Bibliography; DVD.

About the Author

Formerly a professor at the Universite Paris I - Sorbonne,Jean Louis Paudrat is the author and contributor to many books on African art. Among them Primitivism in 20th Century Art (MoMA) and Art of Africa (Abrams). Egidio Cossa is the director of the African Section of the Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Pigorini in Rome.