DRAGON
AND PHOENIX
Centuries of Exchange between Chinese and Islamic worlds
8TH CENTURY
18TH CENTURY
From the 8th century, when the first colonies of Arab merchants settled in Canton, to the 18th century, when China was beginning to adapt to Western tastes
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works of art to see
Marco Polo (1254-1324)
Devisement of the World or Book of Wonders, A Travel Story, 1299
The riches originals manuscripts
Discover the the journeys of the three travelers
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The bestiary
at the center of the exhibition
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the visitor is immersed in a fabulous universe, which highlights the rich iconography of composite, bizarre and unreal creatures and reveals the importance of the marvelous and highly symbolic imaginary that pervaded the Chinese and Islamic worlds.
With the exception of Nietzsche, no other madman has contributed so much to human sanity as has Louis Althusser. He is mentioned twice in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as someone’s teacher. There could be no greater lapse: for two important decades (the 60s and the 70s), Althusser was at the eye of all the important cultural storms.
All the important cultural storms
With the exception of Nietzsche
All the important cultural storms
With the exception of Nietzsche
All the important cultural storms
With the exception of Nietzsche
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the exhibition in pictures
Discover the exhibition in pictures
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The Travelers
ANIMATION
EDUCATION RESSOURCES
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There could be no greater lapse: for two important decades (the 60s and the 70s), Althusser was at the eye of all the important cultural storms. He fathered quite a fewspeechless. It, therefore, confronts and poses (to itself) only answerable questions.media, the industries of culture.
With the exception of Nietzsche, no other madman has contributed so much to human sanity as has Louis Althusser. He is mentioned twice in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as someone’s teacher. There could be no greater lapse: for two important decades (the 60s and the 70s), Althusser was at the eye of all the important cultural storms. He fathered quite a fewspeechless. It, therefore, confronts and poses (to itself) only answerable questions.media, the industries of culture.
With the exception of Nietzsche, no other madman has contributed so much to human sanity as has Louis Althusser.
Manuscript
The travelers
Ressources
The bestiary
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6 OCTOBER 2021
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