Oceania /
Oceania /
edited by Peter Brunt and Nicholas Thomas.
- London : Royal Academy Publications, 2018.
- 325 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 31 cm.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 29 September - 10 December 2018, Musée du Quai Branly, Jacques Chirac, Paris, 12 March - 7 July 2019.
Includes bibliographic references (pages 314-319) and index.
Voyaging and Navigation ; Making Place ; The Spirit of the Gift ; Performance and Ceremony ; Encounter and Empire ; Memory Oceania Redux -- Reimagining the Ocean / Architecture, the Seasons and Rituals in the Land of the Kanaks / Museums, Collections, Colonialism, and the Gift: A Dialogue / Performance and the Body / Catalogue Plates -- Anne Salmond -- Emmanuel Kasarhérou -- Peter Brunt, Nicholas Thomas, Sean Mallon and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu -- Michael Mel --
From the remote shores of Rapa Nui to the dense rainforest of Papua New Guinea, the islands of the Pacific are home to some of the most culturally diverse populations on the planet. The region embraces an extraordinary range of art forms, from delicate shell ornaments to spectacularly decorated canoes and meeting houses. These have fascinated outsiders since the exploratory voyages of Captain Cook, the first of which commenced 250 years ago in 1768, and went on to entrance Gauguin and a host of other European artists. This volume accompanies a major survey in London and Paris of art from Oceania. It brings together the most up-to-date scholarship by the leading experts in the field, encompassing a dazzling array of objects from the region, including many that have never been published before. Also included are many works that have historically been overlooked, such as painted and woven textiles, elaborate wicker assemblages and expressively sculpted vessels, alongside works by artists working in Oceania today. Objects of great aesthetic beauty, these artworks are the product of a complex web of social, mythological and historical influences.
9781910350508 1910350508 9781910350492 1910350494
Art--Oceania
Ethnology--Oceania.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 29 September - 10 December 2018, Musée du Quai Branly, Jacques Chirac, Paris, 12 March - 7 July 2019.
Includes bibliographic references (pages 314-319) and index.
Voyaging and Navigation ; Making Place ; The Spirit of the Gift ; Performance and Ceremony ; Encounter and Empire ; Memory Oceania Redux -- Reimagining the Ocean / Architecture, the Seasons and Rituals in the Land of the Kanaks / Museums, Collections, Colonialism, and the Gift: A Dialogue / Performance and the Body / Catalogue Plates -- Anne Salmond -- Emmanuel Kasarhérou -- Peter Brunt, Nicholas Thomas, Sean Mallon and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu -- Michael Mel --
From the remote shores of Rapa Nui to the dense rainforest of Papua New Guinea, the islands of the Pacific are home to some of the most culturally diverse populations on the planet. The region embraces an extraordinary range of art forms, from delicate shell ornaments to spectacularly decorated canoes and meeting houses. These have fascinated outsiders since the exploratory voyages of Captain Cook, the first of which commenced 250 years ago in 1768, and went on to entrance Gauguin and a host of other European artists. This volume accompanies a major survey in London and Paris of art from Oceania. It brings together the most up-to-date scholarship by the leading experts in the field, encompassing a dazzling array of objects from the region, including many that have never been published before. Also included are many works that have historically been overlooked, such as painted and woven textiles, elaborate wicker assemblages and expressively sculpted vessels, alongside works by artists working in Oceania today. Objects of great aesthetic beauty, these artworks are the product of a complex web of social, mythological and historical influences.
9781910350508 1910350508 9781910350492 1910350494
Art--Oceania
Ethnology--Oceania.