Author: Publisher: Hudson River Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Native Arts Of North America, Africa, And The South Pacific
Author: George A. CorbinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429973055
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
This introduction to the art of tribal peoples of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific does not briefly cover the hundreds of artistic traditions in these three vast areas but rather studies in depth thirty-six art styles within all three areas using the methods of art history, including stylistic analysis and iconographic interpretation. Emphasis is on the art in cultural context and as a system of visual communication within each tribal area. Where appropriate for a more complete understanding of the art, data from archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, religion, and other humanistic disciplines are included.Among the peoples and cultures whose art is studied are the Haida, Kwakiutl, and Tlingit; the Hohokam and Mongollon, the Anasazi and Hopi; the Dogon and Bamana of Mali; the Asante of Ghana; the Benin, Yoruba, and Ibo of Nigeria; the Fan, the Bamum, and the Kuba of Central Africa; Australian aboriginal and Island New Guinea art; Island Melanesia art; central and eastern Polynesia; Hawaii and the Maori in Marginal Polynesia.The format of the text and selected illustrations is based on seventeen years of teaching African, North American Indian, and South Pacific art to undergraduate and graduate students at Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY), New York University, and Columbia University. The book is intended for art history and anthropology students and the interested lay reader or collector. The detailed notes at the end of the book are for further study, research, and understanding of the tribal art style under discussion.
Arts of the South Pacific
Author: Publisher: Hudson River Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Arts of the South Pacific
Author: Jean GuiartPublisher: [London] : Thames and Hudson
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Gift of The John W. Cavanaugh Family Foundation.
Arts of the Pacific Islands
Author: Anne D'AllevaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300164121
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia
Author: Adrienne L. KaepplerPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191539996
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface. Comprising thousands of islands and hundreds of cultural groups, Polynesia and Micronesia cover a large part of this vast ocean, from the dramatic mountains of Hawaii to the small, flat coral islands of Kiribati. Including both traditional and contemporary arts, this book introduces the rich artistic traditions of these two regions, traditions that have had a considerable impact on western art in the twentieth century through the influence of artists such as Gauguin. Instead of looking at Polynesia and Micronesia separately, the book focuses on the artistic types, styles, and concepts that they share, placing each in its wider cultural context. From the textiles of Tonga to the canoes of Tahiti, Adrienne Kaeppler looks at religious and sacred rituals and objects, carving, architecture, tattooing, personal ornaments, basket-making, clothing, textiles, fashion, the oral arts, dance, music and musical instruments - even canoe-construction - to provide the ultimate introduction to the rich and vibrant artistic cultures of the Polynesian and Micronesian islands.
An Outline Guide to the Art of the South Pacific
Author: Paul Stover WingertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Art in the New Pacific
Author: Vilsoni HerenikoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Review of The Arts of the South Pacific
Author: Simon KooijmanThe Art of the Pacific Islands
Author: Douglas NewtonMade in the South Pacific
Author: Christine PricePublisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Describes the arts of the people of the Pacific islands both in the past and today.