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 The Art of Asmat written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asmat written by Museum Kebudayaan & Kemajuan (Papua, Indonesia) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of the Asmat New Guinea written by Museum of Primitive Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of the Asmat New Guinea written by Museum of Primitive Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Making of Asmat Art written by Nick Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the way major collections were made and examines the motivations of the collectors, their relationships with those from whom they purchased and the circumstances of the exchange. It also considers the involvement of artists and film-makers, anthropologists, representatives of the civil authorities and missionaries.
Download or read book The Art of the Asmat New Guinea written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of the Asmat New Guinea written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Museum of Asmat Art written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The web site provides detailed information about the Asmat people of Irian Jaya, their culture, art and history, as well as information about the American Museum of Asmat Art in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Download or read book Asmat Art written by Derek Norton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asmat Images from the Collection of the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress written by Tobias Schneebaum and published by Museum. This book was released on 1985 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To appreciate Asmat art one is obliged to obtain an understanding of the environment and the milieu from which the artist arises. Although the land of Asmat might be misconceived by some as a congenial sunny place of ease, the very opposite is true. The environment is harsh, an alluvial swamp, barely bobbing above sea leavel, and almost constantly innundated by daily tides and heavy rainfall. Mud is a consistent bane to life. The jungles, overgrown by huge trees, bushes, and entangled thorn vines, are exceedingly difficult to trek through. Passage from one area of the jungle to another is managed conveniently only by the use of a dugout, paddled on the myriad river system cutting and winding through it." --Foreword, p. 7
Download or read book Making the Invisible Visible written by Marcus B. Fleischhacker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art as Contact with the Ancestors written by Pauline van der Zee and published by Kit Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions about the meanings of non-western art keep intriguing western art-observers. Working towards understanding these meanings, Pauline van der Zee here compares the art, symbolism and mythology of two Papua people ”the Kamoro and Asmat. There are no ready-made and unambiguous answers to be given ”every interpretation is a partial one. For the artist himself interpretation is not always an issue, he follows the traditions of his ancestors. In some cases meanings belong to culturally concealed knowledge, not to be shared with outsiders. Yet sometimes a bit of this knowledge is disclosed. Adriaan Gerbrands (1967), drawing on both the work of Ref. Gerard Zegwaard ”a profound scholar of Asmat culture ”and his own extensive fieldwork, discovered that many Asmat designs can be interpreted as symbols of headhunting ideology. Gerbrands focuses on what he calls the Sheadhunting-nexus : a nexus of related forms which can all be connected to headhunting practices and their meaning in the given cultural context. But in fact there are many more interpretations possible. Art as a medium of contact with ancestors is a recent comparative research focusing on the related, yet different, artistic expressions of Asmat and neighboring Kamoro. The analysis is based on an investigation of the Asmat and Kamoro collections at the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam. The approach taken here emphasizes relationships between art, rituals and mythology. Artifacts perform in rituals and rituals, according to native beliefs, were introduced by mythical heroes. Combining cultural information embedded in myths and rituals with an investigation of various design elements and comparing Asmat and Kamoro data, results in innovative interpretations resonating the intrinsic ambiguity of art.
Download or read book Art from Asmat written by R. L. Mellema and published by . This book was released on 195? with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
