A call from the heart of the jungle, the inevitable vines, the knife, the animal skin loincloth… With his indispensable assets, Tarzan travelled around the world… He’s been adapted in countless books, comic books, films, songs, avatars… He’s also been censured, dressed again, made into merchandise, mocked.

Unique, immemorial and ever changing, Tarzan is one of the 20th century’s great myths. As if he was a mirror for each era to view and question the every moving frontier between nature and culture, the savage and the civilized, man and animal.

And while myths may be eternal, they nonetheless have a history.