neues Buch: Die Schätze der Osterinsel

Treasures of Ester Island / Trésors de l’île de Pâques
Collection de la Congrégation des Sacrés-Cœurs de Jésus et de Marie SS.CC
By Michel et Catherine Orliac (Abbildung im Literaturverzeichnis unter Orliac)
Bilingual English - French, published by Éditions D, Geneva and Editions Louise Leiris, Paris, 2008.
Format : 26,5 x 31 cm, 288 pp., 224 ill.
ISBN 3-9522567-4-9
Since the first accounts by the great travellers and up to current literature, much has been written on Easter Island having participated, intentionally or not, to the creation of an often inaccurate image of this solitary land in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean.
With this book, we hope to contribute to a better understanding of the history of the Island and its inhabitants by studying a collection of exceptional works of art. This collection includes most of the types of carved wood in the Island’s art, brought together in a single, very old collection: that of the Picpus Fathers, the first religious congregation to set foot on Easter Island in the 19th Century.
Catherine and Michel Orliac, archaeologists, researchers and botanists, offer us a refined and original approach to the Island, the organisation of its population, its complex society and the remarkable art which has accompanied the history of its people.