Asmat art : woodcarvings of Southwest New Guinea
Author : Adrian A. Gerbrands
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 1993
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ISBN : 9789054500018
Author : Adrian A. Gerbrands
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 1993
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ISBN : 9789054500018
Author : Dirk Smidt
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1462909647
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.
Author : Adrian A. Gerbrands
Publisher : Periplus Editions
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art, Asmat
ISBN : 9780945971597
Author : H. C. van RENSELAAR
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : H. C. van Renselaar
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Art
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Author : Nick Stanley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 1845455967
Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. This book looks to the future of museum practice through examining how these museums have evolved to incorporate the present and the future in the display of culture.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 1588392384
Includes 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 : Pam Meecham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1118639847
A Companion to Modern Art presents a series of original essays by international and interdisciplinary authors who offer a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of artistic works, movements, approaches, influences, and legacies of Modern Art. Presents a contemporary debate and dialogue rather than a seamless consensus on Modern Art Aims for reader accessibility by highlighting a plurality of approaches and voices in the field Presents Modern Art’s foundational philosophic ideas and practices, as well as the complexities of key artists such as Cezanne and Picasso, and those who straddled the modern and contemporary Looks at the historical reception of Modern Art, in addition to the latest insights of art historians, curators, and critics to artists, educators, and more
Author : Karen Jacobs
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9088900884
The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between representation and collecting, the author focuses on the creative and pragmatic agency of Kamoro people in these collecting encounters. By considering objects as visualizations of social relations, and as enactments of personal, social or historical narrative, this book combines filling a gap in the literature on Kamoro culture with an interest in broader questions that surround the nature of ethnographic collecting, representation, patronage and objectification.
Author : Ross Bowden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1793611378
The Kwoma, the subject of this book, are one of a number of peoples in the Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea who have created some of the most distinctive visual art in the Pacific. Through case studies of their painting, sculpture, architecture and ritual this book examines in detail how people in this society understand their art as a cultural phenomenon. This includes how they understand its origins in the spirit world, how they judge quality in art and how they understand artistic creativity. The book contrasts Kwoma beliefs with the radically different approach to art found in the modern West. The modern Western concept of art first emerged not in the eighteenth century in the Enlightenment, or even later, as anthropologists and art historians often assume, but several centuries earlier in the Renaissance. The book gives an account of radical changes that took place culturally in Europe between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries in the way human intellectual creativity was understood, and how this gave rise to a new concept of art, one that remains unchanged in the modern West today.