Author: Indiana University, Bloomington. Art MuseumPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253204127
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
African, Pacific, and Pre-Columbian Art in the Indiana University Art Museum
Author: Indiana University, Bloomington. Art MuseumPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253204127
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
African, Pacific, and Pre-Columbian Art in the Indiana University Art Museum
Author: Roy SieberOceania
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392384
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
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.
Creating Authenticity
Author: Alexander GeurdsPublisher: Sidestone Press
ISBN: 9088902054
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
‘Authenticity’ and authentication is at the heart of museums’ concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneering ethnographers attempted to lay bare the essences of cultures through collecting and studying objects from distant communities. Comparably, historical archaeology departed from the idea that cultures were discrete bounded entities, subject to divergence but precisely therefore also to be traced back and linked to, a more complete original form in de (even) deeper past. Much of what we work with today in ethnographic museum collections testifies to that conviction. Post-structural thinking brought about a far-reaching deconstruction of the authentic. It came to be recognized that both far-away communities and the deep past can only be discussed when seen as desires, constructions and inventions. Notwithstanding this undressing of the ways in which people portray their cultural surroundings and past, claims of authenticity and quests for authentication remain omnipresent. This book explores the authentic in contemporary ethnographic museums, as it persists in dialogues with stakeholders, and how museums portray themselves. How do we interact with questions of authenticity and authentication when we curate, study artefacts, collect, repatriate, and make (re)presentations? The contributing authors illustrate the divergent nature in which the authentic is brought into play, deconstructed and operationalized. Authenticity, the book argues, is an expression of a desire that is equally troubled as it is resilient.
Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art BranchPublisher: G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Pacific Arts
Author: Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum
Author: Indiana University, Bloomington. Art MuseumPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Richly illustrated with more than 160 full-color plates, Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum presents a selection of the finest works from one of the best university art museums in the world. Included are examples from the full range of world cultures collected by the museum: Africa, the Ancient Western World, Asia, Ancient America, the South Pacific, and Western Art before and after 1800. The entry accompanying each piece, by the curator of that collection, sketches the cultural context within which the object was created and used and describes the unique qualities that make it a masterpiece. In addition to showcasing the research of the museum's highly respected curatorial staff, this handsome volume highlights the remarkable photography of Michael Cavanagh and Kevin Montague, widely regarded as among the premier photographers of fine arts. For students, lovers, and collectors of art, Masterworks provides an inspiring and illuminating tour of the world's artistic traditions.
Joint Acquisitions List of Africana
Author: Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies
Author: Schomburg Center for Research in Black CulturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Author: