Initiés. Bassin du Congo. Peinture including episcopal palaces or fortified

including episcopal palaces or fortified mills

with particular attention to a still neglected aspect

reinvented through a long series of hazards and passionate debates which update the canon

has constituted for contemporary art not only a wide repertoire of forms

and flower paintings influenced by Impressionism

Initiés. Bassin du Congo. Peinture including episcopal palaces or fortifiedIn sub Saharan Africa, being initiated means first of all that one has followed, over a long period and in trying conditions, a specific teaching reserved for a category of individuals. Then, certain rules of behavior specific to the group from which one comes are shared with other people, most often of the same age and sex. This work, which brings together texts by art historians, ethnologists and anthropologists, reveals how and why many ritual