The Art of the Pacific Islands
Author: Douglas Newton
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Published: 1979
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Author: Douglas Newton
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Published: 1979
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anne D'Alleva
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Published: 2010
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ISBN-13: 9780300164121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this comprehensive survey of the art of the Pacific Islands, including the Melanesian, Polynesian, Micronesian, and New Guinean traditions, author Anne D’Alleva explains the significance of these artworks by contextualizing them within each island’s unique culture and practices. In the process, D’Alleva examines the biases of both artists and Western viewers, telling an important history of both people and ideas through a detailed analysis of sculpture, paintings, textiles, dance, jewelry, and architecture. As these nations faced alternating periods of isolation, colonization, and contact with each other and the West, their forms of art were drastically altered to incorporate foreign influences and to develop autonomous identities and cultural independence. Therefore, their artistic practices explore the inherent tension between tradition and modernity within these communities. Ranging from the prehistoric period to the modern era, and accompanied by a timeline, bibliography, and glossary of terms, this book raises important questions for continued debate and study of the art of the Pacific Rim.
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 365
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1588392384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes detailed chapters devoted to each of the five major cultural regions of the Pacific: Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the islands of Southeast Asia.
Author: Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008-03-27
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0192842382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith more than one hundred illustrations--most in full color--this volume offers a stimulating and insightful account of two dynamic artistic cultures, traditions that have had a considerable impact on modern western art through the influence of artists such as Gauguin. After an introduction to Polynesian and Micronesian art separately, the book focuses on the artistic types, styles, and concepts shared by the two island groups, thereby placing each in its wider cultural context. From the textiles of Tonga to the canoes of Tahiti, Adrienne Kaeppler sheds light on religious and sacred rituals and objects, carving, architecture, tattooing, and much more.
Author: Douglas Newton
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Published: 19??
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780253250001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karen Stevenson
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780971412774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Brings artists, academics, museum curators and gallery owners together to discuss the production and promotion of contemporary Pacific arts in the global art world" BOOK JACKET.
Author: Paul Stover Wingert
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe material in this book was first used in the catalog issued for the 1953 Loan Exhibition of the Art of the South Pacific Islands, held at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco. 102 reproductions, mostly of carvings.
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0870994611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis twelve-volume series for the general reader reproduces works of art representing the resources of all eighteen curatorial departments of the Museum.
Author: Jennifer Newell
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Published: 2011
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ISBN-13: 9780714125909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe art of the Pacific Islands is exciting, varied, vibrant and ever-changing. Across the great breadth of the Pacific, artists have always employed a wide variety of materials and techniques to create objects for specific purposes. These have been central to the management of land and ocean, of political and spiritual power, and of connections to gods and ancestors. This book focuses on objects from the domestic to the sacred, from the elegantly simple to the sumptuously ornate, and from the historic to the contemporary. The author draws on striking and colourful examples from the Pacific's major cultural regions: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia, beginning with an introduction asking 'What is Pacific art?' Each of the beautiful artworks is then explored further through close-ups, allowing intriguing comparisons between seemingly unrelated objects and media. Ideal as a spur to creative inspiration, this beautiful book offers a striking and unusual view of the wide array of Pacific art, evoking the skills of the most accomplished Pacific artists and craftworkers, past and present.