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Author | : Jennifer Newell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780674055780 |
Download Pacific Art in Detail Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Pacific Art in Detail introduces the riches of Oceanic art through astonishing close-up views of rarely seen treasures, allowing behind-the-scenes insight into this vibrant work that no conventional gallery tour affords. Carefully selected pieces from the world-renowned Oceanic collection at the British Museumâe"by artists employing a wide variety of materials and techniquesâe"illustrate such major themes as the role of artistic creation in land and ocean management, political and spiritual power, and connections to gods and ancestors. Jenny Newellâe(tm)s introduction addresses the question âeoeWhat is Pacific art?âe while short texts place each individual object into its cultural context. Handsome photographs of each complete work are displayed alongside these fine details, to allow for intriguing comparisons between seemingly unrelated objects and media. Evoking the hand and eye of the most accomplished Pacific artists and craft workers, past and present, these details spur the creative imagination and serve as an astute introduction to Oceanic collections in museums around the world.
Author | : Adrienne L. Kaeppler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2008-03-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0192842382 |
Download The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
With 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 | : Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany) |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1606060724 |
Download Pacific Standard Time Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"This volume is published for the occasion of the Getty's citywide grant initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945-1980 and accompanies the exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950- 1970, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles."
Author | : Karen Stevenson |
Publisher | : Huia Publishers |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1869693256 |
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This book offers a contextual understanding of the contemporary Pacific art movement in New Zealand. As well as examining key individual artists, the book also addresses issues that underlie this movement and the inspirations for creating this art.
Author | : Anita Herle |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780824825560 |
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Contributors explore the complex relations among Pacific artists, patrons, collectors, and museums over time, as well as the different meanings given to art objects by each.
Author | : Nicholas Thomas |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2005-04-29 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1861898231 |
Download Tattoo Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The popularity of tattoos today is a revival of a practice begun in the late eighteenth century, when Westerners first made contact with the native peoples of the Pacific. The term ‘tattoo’ entered Europe with the publication of Captain Cook’s voyages in the 1770s, and Pacific tattoos became fashionable in the West as sailors, whalers and explorers brought home tattoos from Tahiti, the Marquesas, New Zealand and Polynesia. In recent years these early contacts have been revived, as native tattooists from Oceania have begun tattooing non-Polynesians in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. Tattoo is both a fascinating book about these early Oceanic–European exchanges, that also documents developments up to the present day, and the first to look at the history of tattooing in Oceania itself. Documenting these complex cultural interactions in the first part of the book, the authors move from issues of encounter, representation and exchange to the interventions of missionaries and the colonial state in local tattoo practices. Highly illustrated with many previously unseen images, for example the original voyage sketches of the first Russian circumnavigation of 1803–6, this is a fascinating account of early tattooing and cultural exchange in Oceania, and will appeal to the wide audience interested in the history of tattooing.
Author | : Lucie Carreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : ART |
ISBN | : 9789088905919 |
Download Pacific Presences Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. These collections constitute a remarkable resource for understanding history and society across Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook, and the colonial transformations that have taken place since. They are also collections of profound importance for Islanders today, who have varied responses to their disp.
Author | : Crispin Howarth |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download Varilaku Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Through over sixty works, this book explores traditional, or kastom, beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions and the indigenous aesthetics of the self - the use of adornments to express identity and status from the mid nineteenth to the mid twentieth centuries.--From back cover.
Author | : Jennifer Newell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780714125909 |
Download Pacific Art in Detail Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The 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.
Author | : Lana Lopesi |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2023-10-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1776950518 |
Download Pacific Arts Aotearoa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Pacific Arts Aotearoa tells the dynamic and powerful story of Pacific arts in Aotearoa New Zealand. This comprehensive account spans six decades of multidisciplinary Pacific creative genius, remembering the diverse, fresh and energetic contributions of Pacific artists to New Zealand, Oceania and the world. Edited by leading Pacific writer and scholar Lana Lopesi, this book includes over 300 images and contributions from more than 120 artists, curators and community voices, providing new and previously unheard perspectives on this vast and growing legacy, in one volume. Published in association with Pacific Arts, Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa as part of the Pacific Arts Legacy Project, an initiative under the Pacific Arts Strategy.