Important African & Oceanic Art Auction
Author: Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.)
Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781599671529
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Author: Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.)
Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781599671529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Stepan
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough he never set foot in Africa, Picasso had a passion for African art. Throughout the course of his life, he assembled a unique collection of statues and masks. Comprising more than 120 objects, Picasso's private collection can now be found in museums in Paris such as the Louvre, Musee Quai Branly and the Musee Picasso, as well as in the private collections of members of Picasso's family. This beautiful book documents the entire collection and examines it as a whole. It features documentary photographs, a section of stunning colour plates, and detailed ethnographic descriptions of each piece, providing a full account of Picasso's relationship with African and Oceanic art. This important publication sheds new light on the fascination non-Western art held for one of twentieth century's most important artists. Review: '...an illuminating and handsome book, copiously illustrated with fascinating original documents and excellent colour reproductions...''... a convenient and also essential reference tool for anyone interested in this important subject.''... an invaluable and also entertaining guide.''... this book not only investigates Picasso's response to tribal art with unusual thoroughness, but also reopens the larger question of the artist's 'primitivism'.'The Burlington Magazine, June 2007
Author: Hasso Von Winning
Publisher:
Published: 196?
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780810947511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Guillaume
Publisher:
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 162
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ivy Press
Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
Published: 2007-05
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781599671529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1588392279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Many masterpieces of central African sculpture were created to amplify the power of sacred relics that affirm a family's vital connection to its ancestral heritage. This important volume, focusing on some 130 works representing a diverse variety of regional genres, illuminates the purpose and significance of these icons of African art, which first came to prominence because of their appeal to the Western avant-garde. While providing an overview of sources ranging from colonial explorers, missionaries, critics, artists, and art historians, the book breaks new ground in its examination of the complex aesthetic and spiritual dimensions of the reliquaries. Its interdisciplinary approach brings together the perspectives of scholars in African and medieval art history along with those in African history, religion, and ethnography." -- Publisher.
Author: Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy focusing on the original scholarly contributions, rather than secondary description, this reader in tribal arts exposes the reader to the best original scholarship of 29 noted scholars in anthropology and art history. Each scholarly essay is well-illustrated, often with original field photographs as well as museum objects. For artists, art historians, sociologists, and all those interested in the arts of the fourth world.
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-09-02
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0300204299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn engaging explanation of Oceanic art and an important gateway to wider appreciation of Oceanic heritage and visual culture
Author: John Warne Monroe
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-09-15
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1501736361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa to Parisian art galleries; from the pages of fashion magazines, through the doors of the Louvre, to world fairs and international auction rooms; into the apartments of avant-garde critics and poets; to the streets of Harlem, and then full-circle back to colonial museums and schools in Dakar, Bamako, and Abidjan. John Warne Monroe guides us on this journey, one that goes far beyond the world of Picasso, Matisse, and Braque, to show how the Modernist avant-garde and the European colonial project influenced each other in profound and unexpected ways. Metropolitan Fetish reveals the complex trajectory of African material culture in the West and provides a map of that passage, tracing the interaction of cultural and imperial power. A broad and far-reaching history of the French reception of African art, it brings to life an era in which the aesthetic category of "primitive art" was invented.
Author: Peter Brunt
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781910350492
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Encompassing thousands of islands from the remote shores of Rapa Nui to the dense rainforest of Papua New Guinea, Oceania is one of the world's most extraordinary and diverse regions. This book, accompanying the spectacular exhibition at the Royal Academy opening this September, showcases Oceanic art and the subsequent migrations of people, cultures and objects from the Pacific around the world, from the unrivalled navigational feats of the first settlers who traversed the open ocean in wooden canoes to the explorations of Captain Cook 250 years ago. Bringing together the most up-to-date scholarship by experts in the field, this book presents Oceania through the eyes of its own people - artists, poets and photographers - who explore the legacy of the past and the future of a world and way of life threatened by a changing climate. Featuring over 300 colour illustrations, and text from Peter Brunt, Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington; Nicholas Thomas, Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge; Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Deputy Director of the Department of the Department of Heritage and Collections at Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris; Sean Mallon, Senior Curator of Pacific Cultures at the Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; Michael Mel, Manager for Pacific and International Collections at the Australian Museum, Sydney; and Dame Anne Salmond DBE, Professor of Maori Studies at the University of Auckland."--Royal Academy of Arts website (accessed 26/10/2018).