East suspended gallery

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16 June - 27 September 2009

curator: Roger Boulay

Roger Boulay is an anthropologist, a specialist in the art of Oceania and an exhibition curator. He was curator for the exhibition "L'aristocrate et ses cannibales : le voyage en Océanie du comte Festetics de Tolna, 1893 - 1896" (The aristocrat and his cannibals : the voyage of the Count of Festetics de Tolna, 1893 – 1896, to Oceania), held in 2007 at the  Musée du Quai Branly.

“It was as though I had been suddenly snatched back through countless ages to a long-dead past, and dropped into the midst of the prehistoric life of my Paleolithic progenitors”

“Tarzan thought of the fragile frontier between the primitive and the civilised”.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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This exhibition dedicated to an icon of popular culture allows the public to discover how the hero was created and decipher the myth that he embodies.

Although Edgar Rice Burroughs is the father of the Tarzan character, all those who used him in comics, film , posters, models, records, games , etc refer to collective images and representations that are at the roots of one of our century’s strongest myth.

The exhibition looks at the origins and nature of Tarzan, as a character as well as a myth (from Saturnin Farandoul, a 1914 documentary, to Greystoke in 1983), and redefines the character as a modern hero fighting for the protection of nature.

TARZAN ® is owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and is used with their permission.