Download or read book Papoea kunst in het Rijksmuseum written by Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Asmat Art written by Dirk Smidt and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asmat Art features the world renowned woodcarvings of the Asmat, former head-hunters who live in the western half of New Guinea This book presents a full range of Asmat woodcarving art, but emphasizes the rare early shields and figure sculptures. Drums, canoe prowheads and the larger, more dramatic "objects" are also shown. Together with bisj poles, war shields are perhaps the most famous creation of Asmat artists, and these were carved throughout the region. It is in the design and construction of the shields that the variations in style region can most clearly be seen. Figure sculptures, of varying styles, are also well represented here, and a limited number of the huge ceremonial carvings, such as bisj poles and basu suangkus, have also been included. The cultural context in which these items play their part is described in detail in the introductory chapters. But it is not the intention of this book to be an ethnography. The focus is on the art pieces themselves.

Download or read book Art of Northwest New Guinea written by Suzanne Greub and published by New York : Rizzoli. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On a map, the island of New Guinea looks like a roughly drawn profile of a sitting bird, with its head, called the Vogelkop (from the Dutch for 'bird's head), reaching west into Indonesia and its tail stretching eastward into Melanesia", writes the eminent ethnologist Simon Kooijman, curator emeritus of the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden, in his introductory note to this book. "Almost half the island, the part to the west of the 141st meridian, ... was under the sovereignty of the Netherlands until 1962 and is now a province of the republic of Indonesia under the name of Irian Jaya". So begins this extraordinary volume, which presents a dramatic overview of the art of Northwest New Guinea, or present-day Irian Jaya. Some 200 outstanding objects of ritual and daily use are illustrated to demonstrate the aesthetic sensibilities of the nonliterate peoples of this region. The objects, drawn primarily from Dutch collections, have been known to collectors and ethnologists since the nineteenth century. But it was particularly through the interest of the French Surrealists that the elegantly painted bark cloths and sculptural figures came to be viewed as part of the larger world of high art. This book brings together a compilation of essays by noted scholars in the fields of ethnology and art history, placing the works in context. Ethnologists Kooijman, Theodoor van Baaren, and Jac Hoogerbrugge, write from experience of the art in the style areas of Geelvink Bay, Humboldt Bay, and Lake Sentani, stressing its highly spiritual content. Art historian Elizabeth Cowling of the University of Edinburgh traces the influence of Oceanic art on the Surrealists, and French historian PhilippePeltier of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Orleans provides a charming biography of twentieth-century adventurer Jacques Viot, a French art dealer and film writer who, in the 1920s, traveled to Lake Sentani in search of objects to place on the Paris art market. And Christian Kaufmann of the Museum fur Volkerkunde in Basel provides an account of the Swiss explorer Paul Wirz, whose travels throughout his life (he died in New Guinea in 1955) bore fruit in some extraordinary acquisitions for the Basel collection. Finally, curators of two Dutch Museums, David van Duuren in Amsterdam and Dirk Smidt in Leiden, evoke an extraordinary sense of place as they tell how missionaries, civil servants, and explorers brought back to Holland a wide range of objects from New Guinea.

Download or read book Art Art Objects and Ritual in the Mimika Culture written by Simon Kooijman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1984 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Collecting Kamoro written by Karen Jacobs and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between representation and collecting, the author focuses on the creative and pragmatic agency of Kamoro people in these collecting encounters. By considering objects as visualizations of social relations, and as enactments of personal, social or historical narrative, this book combines filling a gap in the literature on Kamoro culture with an interest in broader questions that surround the nature of ethnographic collecting, representation, patronage and objectification.

Download or read book Korwars and Korwar Style written by Theodorus Petrus van Baaren and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korwars and Korwar Style : Art and Ancestor Worship in North-West New Guinea.

Download or read book The Art of Oceania written by Louise Hanson and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kamoro Art written by Jan Pouwer and published by Kit Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the long neglected art of the Kamoro, a people living along the southwest coast of Papua. Traditional Kamoro culture was characterized by an almost uninterrupted series of feasts and ceremonies. Some of these feasts are still celebrated today. Woodcarvings made in a distinct style play an essential part in the proceedings. For the first time, a selection of major pieces from the collection of the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, augmented by rare objects from other museums in The Netherlands, has been brought together. Many of the objects, some collected as early as 1828, are unique. Recently collected woodcarvings show the versatility of the Kamoro in continuing the tradition while adding innovation changes to their repertoire. This book, edited by Dirk Smidt, includes a substantial essay by Jan Pouwer on major ceremonial feasts, and contributions by other experts in the field, including Todd Harple, Karen Jacobs, Methodius Mamapuku, and Hein A. van der Schoot.

Download or read book Catalog of the Robert Goldwater Library the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Robert Goldwater Library and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Download or read book National Art Library Catalogue Victoria and Albert Museum London England Catalogue of Exhibition Catalogues written by National Art Library (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Expressions of Belief written by Museum voor Volkenkunde (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Myth and Magic written by Crispin Howarth and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a rare opportunity to encounter masterpieces from the Sepik, works of art that speak of a time and place where spirits and ancestors were integral to daily life. These works come from the rich collections of the National Gallery of Australia, other Australian museums and art galleries, and the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery. This publication celebrates the unique cultures of a country that has been so closely linked to ours, a country that is now celebrating its fortieth anniversary of independence.

Download or read book Pacific Art Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University 2d Ed Enl written by Avery Library and published by . This book was released on with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anthropologica written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports of meetings of the institute.

Download or read book Catalogue de L exposition Ethnographie Et Art de L Oc anie written by N. Michoutouchkine--A. Pilioko Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhibition featured 700 examples of traditional decorative and depictive art from Oceania. There were labour tools & implements; fishing tackle & sea-hunting tools; domestic utensils; hunting & fighting weapons; authority symbols; clothes; decorations; architectural elements; cult & ritual artifacts; sculpture for social purposes; dance accessories & musical instruments; kava & betel preparing tools; money equivalents; tapa cloth & tools for its production.