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Book Bones of the Ancestors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Egloff
  • Publisher : Rowman Altamira
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780759111608
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Bones of the Ancestors written by Brian Egloff and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 3,500-year-old Ambum Stone from Papua New Guinea is the focus of several archaeological stories. The stone itself is an interesting artifact, an important piece of art history that tells us something about the ancient Papuans. The stone is also at the center of controversies over the provenance and ownership of ancient artifacts, as it was excavated on the island of New Guinea, transferred out of the country, and sold on the antiquities market. In telling the story of the Ambum Stone, Brian Egloff raises questions about what can be learned from ancient works of art, about cultural property and the ownership of the past, about the complex and at times shadowy world of art dealers and collectors, and about the role ancient artifacts can play in forming the identities of modern peoples. Book jacket.

Book New Guinea Art

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  • Author : John Friede
  • Publisher : 5 Continents
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book New Guinea Art written by John Friede and published by 5 Continents. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Material Journeys

Download or read book Material Journeys written by Christraud M. Geary and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photos of art objects from various geographical areas.

Book Wisdom of the Mountain

Download or read book Wisdom of the Mountain written by Sana Balai and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major publication on the unique barkcloth art of the Omie, a tribe that lives on the southeastern slopes of Mount Lamington, Papua New Guinea.

Book Shadows of New Guinea

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  • Author : Philippe Peltier
  • Publisher : Somogy
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Shadows of New Guinea written by Philippe Peltier and published by Somogy. This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A publication revealing the extraordinary talents of the scultors of New Guinea, in turn, marked with staggering ferocity and surprising delicacy. The rituals of the native inhabitants of this major island sometimes involved headhunting, perceived as a need to appropriate the enemy's vital forces in order to increase one's own. It is a complex mythology that has given rise to numerous sacred or magic sculptures, the oldest of which were carved with stone tools or sharp shell edges and finished with the pointed teeth of small animals. The Barbier-Mueller Museum presents almost two hundred pieces from New Guinea belonging to its collections, documented by surperb photographs, some of which are previously unpublished." --Dust Jacket.

Book The British National Bibliography

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 2492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Guinea Art  Collecting New Guinea art

Download or read book New Guinea Art Collecting New Guinea art written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cue

    Cue

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 852 pages

Download or read book Cue written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art and Life in New Guinea

Download or read book Art and Life in New Guinea written by Raymond Firth and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Africa  Oceania  the Americas  and the Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art

Download or read book Africa Oceania the Americas and the Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art written by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oceanic Art  Provenance and History

Download or read book Oceanic Art Provenance and History written by Michael Hamson and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book But Is It Art

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  • Author : Cynthia Freeland
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2002-02-07
  • ISBN : 0191504254
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book But Is It Art written by Cynthia Freeland and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, along with the latest research on the brain's role in perceiving art. This clear, provocative book engages with the big debates surrounding our responses to art and is an invaluable introduction to anyone interested in thinking about art.

Book American Doctoral Dissertations

Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Invention of  Folk Music  and  Art Music

Download or read book The Invention of Folk Music and Art Music written by Matthew Gelbart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines. Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and only in relation to each other. He examines how cultural nationalism served as the earliest impetus in classifying music by origins, and how the notions of folk music and art music followed - in conjunction with changing conceptions of nature, and changing ideas about human creativity. Through tracing the history of these musical categories, the book confronts our assumptions about different kinds of music.

Book The Photomontages of Hannah H  ch

Download or read book The Photomontages of Hannah H ch written by Hannah Höch and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, in the first comprehensive survey of her work by an American museum, authors Peter Boswell, Maria Makela, and Carolyn Lanchner survey the full scope of Hoch's half-century of experimentation in photomontage - from her politically charged early works and intimate psychological portraits of the Weimar era to her later forays into surrealism and abstraction.