Living Spirits with Fixed Abodes
Living Spirits with Fixed Abodes

Author: Barry Craig

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781863332583

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This book gives the reader a thorough account of each of the 209 objects on display at the Masterpieces exhibition at the PNG National Museum and Art Gallery. The Introduction by the Editor, a former Curator of the National Museum, aims to give the non-Papua New Guinean reader a general idea of the significance of these objects and how they are to be understood. Two chapters by Dr Mark Busse, also a former Curator, provide a brief history of the Museum and outline its functions.

Asmat Art
Asmat Art

Author: Dirk Smidt

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1462909647

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Asmat Art features the world renowned woodcarvings of the Asmat, former head-hunters who live in the western half of New Guinea This book presents a full range of Asmat woodcarving art, but emphasizes the rare early shields and figure sculptures. Drums, canoe prowheads and the larger, more dramatic "objects" are also shown. Together with bisj poles, war shields are perhaps the most famous creation of Asmat artists, and these were carved throughout the region. It is in the design and construction of the shields that the variations in style region can most clearly be seen. Figure sculptures, of varying styles, are also well represented here, and a limited number of the huge ceremonial carvings, such as bisj poles and basu suangkus, have also been included. The cultural context in which these items play their part is described in detail in the introductory chapters. But it is not the intention of this book to be an ethnography. The focus is on the art pieces themselves.

Papua New Guinea Prints
Papua New Guinea Prints

Author: National Gallery of Australia

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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Richly illustrated and clearly written, Papua New Guinea Prints is a groundbreaking contribution to the understanding of a vital period in the history of art in Papua New Guinea.

Contemporary Art in Papua New Guinea
Contemporary Art in Papua New Guinea

Author: Susan Cochrane

Publisher: Fine Art Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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The contemporary artwork movement in Papua New Guinea is 20 years young. Spectacular carvings and painted objects, such as ancestor figures and masks, created for ritual and ceremonial purposes, are included in Contemporary Art in Papua New Guinea along with canoe prows, musical instruments, and elaborate body decorations. The accompanying text offers a personal interpretation of the current art movement and its ties to Papua New Guinea's society and culture.

New Guinea Highlands
New Guinea Highlands

Author: John Friede

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 3791350552

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The first major publication on the art of the New Guinea Highlands, this extraordinary volume is destined to become the definitive resource on this little-known region. The Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco consists of hundreds of objects and represents hundreds of clans and villages throughout the island of New Guinea. This lavishly illustrated volume focuses on the Highlands—a region of rugged mountains, fertile valleys, and a civilization that dates back fifty thousand years. Here, in more than six hundred pages, are intricately crafted shields, masks, and headdresses, along with other remarkable ceremonial and personal objects—the majority of which have never before been published or exhibited. Historic and field photographs, maps of key locations, and authoritative essays by preeminent scholars covering a wide range of subjects, from prehistoric carvings to body adornment, make this book a collector’s dream.