Pacific Art In Detail

Author : Jennifer Newell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714125903

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Pacific Art in Detail by Jennifer Newell Pdf

The art of the Pacific Islands is exciting, varied, vibrant and ever-changing. Across the great breadth of the Pacific, artists have always employed a wide variety of materials and techniques to create objects for specific purposes. These have been central to the management of land and ocean, of political and spiritual power, and of connections to gods and ancestors. This book focuses on objects from the domestic to the sacred, from the elegantly simple to the sumptuously ornate, and from the historic to the contemporary. The author draws on striking and colourful examples from the Pacific's major cultural regions: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia, beginning with an introduction asking 'What is Pacific art?' Each of the beautiful artworks is then explored further through close-ups, allowing intriguing comparisons between seemingly unrelated objects and media. Ideal as a spur to creative inspiration, this beautiful book offers a striking and unusual view of the wide array of Pacific art, evoking the skills of the most accomplished Pacific artists and craftworkers, past and present.

Author : Anita Herle
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 082482556X

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Pacific Art by Anita Herle Pdf

Contributors explore the complex relations among Pacific artists, patrons, collectors, and museums over time, as well as the different meanings given to art objects by each.

Author : Katherine Giuffre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317164234

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Collective Creativity by Katherine Giuffre Pdf

Collective Creativity offers an analysis of the explosion of artistic creativity currently taking place on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga. By exploring the construction of this art-world through the ways in which creativity and innovation are linked to social structures and social networks, this book investigates the social aspects of making fine art in order to present a ’collective’ theory of creativity. With a close examination of tourism, galleries and, of course, the artists themselves, Katherine Giuffre presents a detailed picture of a complex and multi-faceted community through the words of the art-world participants themselves. Theoretically sophisticated, yet grounded with rich empirical data, this book will appeal not only to anthropologists with an interest in the South Pacific, but also to scholars concerned with questions of ethnicity, creativity, globalization and network analysis.

Author : Anne D'Alleva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300164122

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Arts of the Pacific Islands by Anne D'Alleva Pdf

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 : Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192842381

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The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia by Adrienne L. Kaeppler Pdf

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 : Karen Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0971412774

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Pacific Island Artists by Karen Stevenson Pdf

"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 : Anita Herle
Publisher : HP Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 1850656185

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Pacific Art by Anita Herle Pdf

Collection of essays documenting the state of research about Pacific art written by authors and specialists in the field interesting to students, artists, collectors, curators etc.

Author : George A. Corbin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429973055

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Native Arts Of North America, Africa, And The South Pacific by George A. Corbin Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:488401064

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The Art of the Pacific Islands by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pacific Arts Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1907774238

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Repositioning Pacific Arts by Pacific Arts Association Pdf

In investigating both customary and modern Pacific art, these collected essays present a wide-ranging view across time and space, taking the reader from antiquities to contemporary art and travelling across the region from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Zealand to Samoa. Studies of artefacts and traditions, such as self-portraiture, wood carvings, shields, tapa, dance and masks, use a variety of approaches, some deriving from museum studies while others are based on field investigation. Together they reveal the oppositional tensions between tradition and innovation, and the inspiration this provides for contemporary artistic practice, either through conscious implementation or through rejection of past definitions. Engagement with these cultural performances and objects provide new possibilities for the creation of current identities. The drafting of antiquities legislation, the tortuous journeys objects have taken to find a place in galleries, the use of exhibitions in cultural exchange, framed by the architecture of museums, as well as the role of film and photography in appropriating Pacific art culture for emerging nationalisms, all of these are considered here to enhance our understanding of indigenous art's place in the world today. These historical perspectives provide the framework in which to explore contemporary acquisition and outreach work with Pacific communities that seeks to reconnect people with objects taken away from the places and intentions of their makers. Questions of how identity is maintained and expressed through art are considered for both individuals and groups. What role does the transformations of objects play in this process? What impacts have been made by colonialism, modernism and the great migrations of people between Pacific countries, and from rural to urban environments? Ultimately, how is 'Pacific Islander' defined and by whom? In Repositioning Pacific Art, artists, curators and academics, including Maori and other Islanders, bring fresh approaches to Oceanic Art History and raise questions of relevance not only to scholars of indigenous art in the region but also in other parts of world.

Author : Susan Cochrane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UCBK:C080886020

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Bérétara by Susan Cochrane Pdf

Today, vibrant contemporary cultures are flourishing in the Pacific Islands. Instead of mimicking Western culture, artists there are leading the way. Discover the new art of the Pacific in this wide ranging, superbly illustrated book. It is produced in association with the new Centre Culturel Tijbaou in New Caledonia.

Author : Steven Hooper
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824830849

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Pacific Encounters by Steven Hooper Pdf

Pacific Encounters brings together for the first time many stunning Polynesian objects collected by voyagers and missionaries during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Illustrated are over 270 items gathered from the major regions of Polynesia. Many are from the British Museum, which houses fine and rare material from the expeditions of Captain Cook, Captain Vancouver, and members of the London Missionary Society. Ranging from massive images of gods to small fish hooks, they are discussed in the contexts of their local use and meanings, and their journeys to museums all over the world. These pieces have remarkable stories to tell of encounters between humans and their gods, between Polynesians and Europeans, their respective chiefs and priests, beliefs, and technologies. Pacific Encounters is a groundbreaking book that conveys the wonder and excitement not only of the objects themselves, but of the fascinating Polynesian cultures that produced them.

Author : Douglas Newton,Peter Gathercole,Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:311610393

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The Art of the Pacific Islands by Douglas Newton,Peter Gathercole,Adrienne L. Kaeppler Pdf

Author : Patricia Hereniko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822006737043

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Pacific Artists by Patricia Hereniko Pdf

Author : John McAleer,Nigel Rigby
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300207248

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Captain Cook and the Pacific by John McAleer,Nigel Rigby Pdf

British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geographic questions, and inspired some of the most influential images of the Pacific made by Europeans. Now readers can immerse themselves in the adventure through the collections of London's National Maritime Museum, which illuminate every aspect of the voyages: oil paintings of lush landscapes, scientific and navigational instruments, ship plans, globes, charts and maps, rare books and manuscripts, coins and medals, ethnographic material, and personal effects. Each artifact holds a story that sheds light on Captain Cook, the crews he commanded, and the effort's impact on world history. Showcasing one of the richest resources of Cook-related material in the world, this publication invites readers to engage with the extraordinary voyages--manifested in material culture--and their continuing significance today.