Pacific Artists

Author : Jennifer Newell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674055780

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Pacific Art in Detail by Jennifer Newell Pdf

Pacific Art in Detail introduces the riches of Oceanic art through astonishing close-up views of rarely seen treasures, allowing behind-the-scenes insight into this vibrant work that no conventional gallery tour affords. Carefully selected pieces from the world-renowned Oceanic collection at the British Museumâe"by artists employing a wide variety of materials and techniquesâe"illustrate such major themes as the role of artistic creation in land and ocean management, political and spiritual power, and connections to gods and ancestors. Jenny Newellâe(tm)s introduction addresses the question âeoeWhat is Pacific art?âe while short texts place each individual object into its cultural context. Handsome photographs of each complete work are displayed alongside these fine details, to allow for intriguing comparisons between seemingly unrelated objects and media. Evoking the hand and eye of the most accomplished Pacific artists and craft workers, past and present, these details spur the creative imagination and serve as an astute introduction to Oceanic collections in museums around the world.

Author : Karen Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191539992

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

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.

Author : Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606060728

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Pacific Standard Time by Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany) Pdf

"This volume is published for the occasion of the Getty's citywide grant initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945-1980 and accompanies the exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950- 1970, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles."

Author : Anita Herle
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Nick Hornby
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015066785679

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Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby Pdf

Fourteen months of Hornby's warm, incisive, and hilarious chronicles of the books he buys and the books he reads.In this latest collection of essays following 'The Polysyllabic Spree,' critic and author Nick Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he's been reading. Ranging from the middlebrow to the highbrow (with unrepenting dips into the lowbrow), Hornby's dispatches from his nightstand table serve as useful guides to contemporary letters, with revelations on contemporary culture, the intellectual scene, and English football, in equal measure.

Author : Karen Stevenson
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781869693251

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The Frangipani is Dead by Karen Stevenson Pdf

This book offers a contextual understanding of the contemporary Pacific art movement in New Zealand. As well as examining key individual artists, the book also addresses issues that underlie this movement and the inspirations for creating this art.

Author : Patricia Hereniko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822006737043

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Pacific Artists by Patricia Hereniko Pdf

Author : Larissa Hjorth,Natalie King,Mami Kataoka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317935711

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Art in the Asia-Pacific by Larissa Hjorth,Natalie King,Mami Kataoka Pdf

As social, locative, and mobile media render the intimate public and the public intimate, this volume interrogates how this phenomenon impacts art practice and politics. Contributors bring together the worlds of art and media culture to rethink their intersections in light of participatory social media. By focusing upon the Asia-Pacific region, they seek to examine how regionalism and locality affect global circuits of culture. The book also offers a set of theoretical frameworks and methodological paradigms for thinking about contemporary art practice more generally.

Author : Susan Kuchler,Graeme Were
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134056651

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The Art of Clothing: A Pacific Experience by Susan Kuchler,Graeme Were Pdf

The Art of Clothing: A Pacific Experience is a collection of richly textured and tremendously engaging empirical studies of cloth and clothing in colonial and post-colonial Pacific contexts. By challenging readers to reconsider the very nature of the materiality of clothing, the editors productively situate this volume at the intersection of a number of ongoing interdisciplinary projects that are coalescing around an interest in cloth and clothing. The book as a whole speaks lucidly to issues of current concern in a wide range of academic fields - including cultural studies, material culture, Pacific history, art history, history of religions, and museum studies.

Author : Jared Mackley-Crump
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824838720

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The Pacific Festivals of Aotearoa New Zealand by Jared Mackley-Crump Pdf

With a history now stretching back four decades, Pacific festivals of Aotearoa assert a multicultural identity of New Zealand and situate the country squarely within a sea of islands. In this volume, Jared Mackley-Crump gives a provocative look at the changing demographics and cultural landscape of a place frequently viewed through a bicultural lens, Pākehā and Māori. Taking the post–World War II migrations of Pacific peoples to New Zealand as its starting point, the story begins in 1972 with the inaugural Polynesian Festival, an event that was primarily designed as a Māori festival, now known as Te Matatini, the largest Māori performing arts event in the world. Two major moments of festivalization are considered: the birth of Polyfest in 1976 and the inaugural Pasifika Festival of 1993. Both began in Auckland, the home of the largest Pacific communities in New Zealand, and both have spawned a series of events that follow the models they successfully established. While Polyfests focus primarily on the transmission of performance traditions from culture bearers to the young, largely New Zealand–born generations, Pasifika festivals are highly public community events, in which diverse displays of material culture are offered up for consumption by both cultural tourists and Pacific communities alike. Both models have experienced a significant period of growth since 1993, and here, the author presents a thought-provoking and wide-ranging analysis to explain the phenomenon that has been called a “Pacific renaissance.” Written from an ethnomusicological perspective, The Pacific Festivals of Aotearoa New Zealand incorporates lively first-person observations as well as interviews with festival organizers, performers, and other important historical figures. The second half of the book delves into the festival space, uncovering new meanings about the function and role of music performance and public festivity. The author skillfully challenges accounts that label festivals as inauthentic recreations of culture for tourist audiences and gives both observers and participants an uplifting new approach to understand these events as meaningful and symbolic extensions of the ways diasporic Pacific communities operate in New Zealand.

Author : Philip J. C. Dark,Roger G. Rose
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824815734

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Artistic Heritage in a Changing Pacific by Philip J. C. Dark,Roger G. Rose Pdf

“The great value of [this work] is the uniformly high quality of papers and their revelation of contemporary trends in Oceanic art research.” —Ethnoarts

Author : Jan Goggans,Aaron DiFranco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313085055

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The Pacific Region by Jan Goggans,Aaron DiFranco Pdf

Robert Penn Warren once wrote West is where we all plan to go some day, and indeed, images of the westernmost United States provide a mythic horizon to American cultural landscape. While the five states (California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawai'i) which touch Pacific waters do share commonalities within the history of westward expansion, the peoples who settled the region—and the indigenous peoples they encountered—have created spheres of culture that defy simple categorization. This wide-ranging reference volume explores the marvelously eclectic cultures that define the Pacific region. From the music and fashion of the Pacific northwest to the film industry and surfing subcultures of southern California, from the vast expanses of the Alaskan wilderness to the schisms between native and tourist culture in Hawa'ii, this unprecedented reference provides a detailed and fascinating look at American regionalism along the Pacific Rim. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures is the first rigorous reference collection on the many ways in which American identity has been defined by its regions and its people. Each of its eight regional volumes presents thoroughly researched narrative chapters on Architecture; Art; Ecology & Environment; Ethnicity; Fashion; Film & Theater; Folklore; Food; Language; Literature; Music; Religion; and Sports & Recreation. Each book also includes a volume-specific introduction, as well as a series foreword by noted regional scholar and former National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman William Ferris, who served as consulting editor for this encyclopedia.

Author : Jeff Khonsary,Antonia Pinter
Publisher : Fillip Editions
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 1927354331

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Institutions by Artists by Jeff Khonsary,Antonia Pinter Pdf

The second volume of Institutions by Artists looks at various global artist-run centers and initiatives within the historical contexts that saw their emergence--among them Western Front (Vancouver), Alice Yard (Trinidad and Tobago), ASCO (Los Angeles) and General Idea (Toronto). It compiles material presented at and around the Institutions by Artists conference, organized in Vancouver in 2012, documenting a series of historical and theoretical texts on artist-led practices as well as transcripts of two debates investigating the professionalization and state sponsorship of art.

Author : Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,9 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.