Download or read book The Collection Classification Display and Interpretation of Melanesian Artefacts at the National Gallery of Australia and the South Australian Museum written by Debra Hassen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Varilaku written by Crispin Howarth and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through over sixty works, this book explores traditional, or kastom, beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions and the indigenous aesthetics of the self - the use of adornments to express identity and status from the mid nineteenth to the mid twentieth centuries.--From back cover.
Download or read book Melanesian Art in the Australian Museum written by David R. Moore and published by Sydney : Trustees of the Australian Museum. This book was released on 1968 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and Life in Melanesia written by Susan Cochrane and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is Melanesian art today? Who are the artists? What are the subjects of their art? Art and Life in Melanesia provides a timely exploration of contemporary Melanesian artists and their creative voices. It covers major cultural themes including kastom, Christianity, Indigenisation and Globalisation, Markets, Festivals, Diasporas, urban culture and politics. Each theme focuses on ideas, issues and some specific arts practices, drawing examples from a few localities. Art and Life in Melanesia is based n many years of research in the region and will be an extremely welcome and timely addition to the publishing on this subject." --Dust jacket.
Download or read book Arts of Melanesia written by Graeme Pretty and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This exhibition is designed to introduce visitors to David Jones during the Adelaide Festival of Arts to the traditional art of Melanesia"-- Page [1]
Download or read book Gods Ghosts and Men written by Crispin Howarth and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication embraces the diverse artistic traditions of Polynesia and Melanesia from the Pacific Arts collection of the National Gallery of Australia. The Gallery's world-class collection is complemented by works held by museums, galleries and private collections in Australia. Pacific Arts includes many works that have never been seen by the Australian public."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Melanesian Art written by Art Gallery of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Melanesia written by Lissant Bolton and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanesia is one of the most culturally diverse and artistically fertile regions of the world. This book is an exporation of one of the richest collections of Melanesian art, that of the British Museum. It is the product of sustained dialogue with people from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, West Papua, and New Caledonia, who are authors or co-authors of many of its chapters. Melanesia: Art and Encounter is a companion to this outstanding collection. The book ranges over an extraordinary variety of historic and modern art forms, from striking masks and shell valuables to intricately woven fabrics, string bags, and paintings on canvas. It investigates histories of exploration and exchange, conversion to Christianity and cultural revival, drawing upon a wealth of new information gleaned from archives, photographs, oral histories, and dialogue with Melanesians. The book is a revelation, not only of the arts of Melanesia, but also of the challenges and possibilities of collaborative research today.
Download or read book Polynesian and Micronesian Artefacts in Australia written by Lissant Bolton and published by Armadillo. This book was released on 1984 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Melanesian Art in the Australian Museum written by David R. Moore (australiano.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia written by Paul Sillitoe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia is intended for undergraduate anthropology students with some grounding in the issues and ideas that inform the discipline, and for courses in Pacific Studies. Each chapter focuses on a topic common to many cultures in the region, such as the role of so-called Big Men, ancestors, male initiation, and exchange, and these ideas are fleshed out with apt ethnographic examples. Melanesia is a fascinating culture area, and has always been a popular fieldwork site for anthropologists, including W. H. R. Rivers, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson. Some of the most important theoretical contributions to the subject were also first formulated with reference to Melanesian studies, and students today still learn much of their basic anthropology from Melanesian examples.
Download or read book Melanesian Art written by Art Gallery of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant works of art from the Art Gallery's Pacific collection are on display, some for the first time in four decades. A selection of works Tony Tuckson acquired for the Pacific collection were on display, coinciding with a major exhibition of his own artworks, Tony Tuckson: the abstract sublime.
Download or read book The Pacific Cultures Gallery South Australian Museum written by Deane Fergie and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gods Ghosts Men written by Crispin Howarth and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication embraces the diverse artistic traditions of Polynesia and Melanesia from the Pacific Arts collection of the National Gallery of Australia. The Gallery's world-class collection is complimented by works held by museums, galleries and private collections in Australia. Pacific Arts includes many works that have never been seen by the Australian public."--Provided by publisher
Download or read book Arts of the South Seas written by Musée Barbier-Mueller and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the famous collections of the Musee Barbier-Mueller this unusual and beautifully illustrated book brings together these cultures to demonstrate the astonishing aesthetic similarities between civilizations located far apart in both space and time. While the arts of the Easter Islands and Maori civilizations have been well known for some years the creativity of the inhabitants of Borneo, Sulawei, and Sumatra is less familiar, and is scarcely represented in the major public collections. On the basis of the linguistic consonance between the thousand or more modern languages spoken in Oceania, anthropologists and archaeologists have begun to trace the cultural links throughout this area, in particular through the rituals and beliefs which are often the inspiration for the forms and functions of the artifacts. Masks in human or animal form, made of tortoiseshell, wood, dried leaves or clay; drums, shields, and batons; multicolored clothing for war and peace; intricate jewelry; as well as a wide variety of everyday containers and implements -- all the treasures in this collection display a sophistication of ornament and technical expertise which rival the products of ancient European civilizations. Scholarly essays by over thirty international experts focus on each island or civilization and form a fascinating study which will certainly become the standard work in this field, of interest to both students and the general reader.
Download or read book Report of Consultancy Documentation and Cataloguing of Melanesian Collections in the National Museum of Australia Canberra written by Barry Craig and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Melanesian Art written by Art gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australie). and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
