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Author : Karen Stevenson
Release : 2011
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 774/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pacific Island Artists by : Karen Stevenson
Download or read book Pacific Island Artists written by Karen Stevenson. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Release : 2008-03-27
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 382/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia by : Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Download or read book The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia written by Adrienne L. Kaeppler. This book was released on 2008-03-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Anne D'Alleva
Release : 2010
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 121/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Arts of the Pacific Islands by : Anne D'Alleva
Download or read book Arts of the Pacific Islands written by Anne D'Alleva. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.
Author : Sean Mallon
Release : 1997
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Speaking in Colour by : Sean Mallon
Download or read book Speaking in Colour written by Sean Mallon. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten artists of Pacific Island descent talk candidly about their lives and work, and about finding themselves as artists.
Author : Crispin Howarth
Release : 2011
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Varilaku by : Crispin Howarth
Download or read book Varilaku written by Crispin Howarth. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
