A visual artist with a D.E.A in History, Andrianetrazafy Hemerson teaches art history at the University of Antananarivo and is Perpetual Secretary of the Arts and Letters section of the Malagasy Academy.

At the initiative of the Yavarhoussen Fund, this essential work is being reborn more than thirty years after its first publication, by its original publisher, Foi et Justice.

This new version is enhanced by a new iconography, chapter and foreword.

This book is both the necessary compass for today's Malagasy artists, enabling them to grasp the long filiation that links them to the cultural roots of their native land, and the essential handbook for any amateur, the curious or the collector who wishes to understand how painting in Madagascar has managed to invent its own original path, negotiated between the influences of colonial power and the permanence of endemic motifs that give it this singular and unique flavor.