Download or read book Pasifika Visual Arts written by Kiri Earle and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia written by Adrienne L. Kaeppler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Pasifika Styles written by Rosanna Raymond and published by Otago University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of who owns Pacific artefacts located in European museums and collected by early explorers has been contentious, with strong debate on either side. New ground was broken in 2006 when an exhibition opened in the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology with contemporary Maori and Pacific artists displaying their work next to taonga collected on the voyages of Cook and Vancouver. In developing the exhibition, the curators used the analogy of the waka or Polynesian voyaging canoe -- in this case bringing the people and the sounds back to the Oceanic collections in Cambridge. New Zealand was involved right from the start, as some fifteen artists helped to organise, set up and run the activities during a two-year period. The exhibition was a groundbreaking experiment in the display of Pacific art. This book features a series of essays written by those involved in this innovative exhibition. The essays show how each aspect of the exhibition was developed: from the mechanics of planning and curating to the organisational aspects of artists' visits and workshops. Colourful illustrations of artefacts and artists at work accompany each chapter. The making of "Pasifika Styles" is described from the perspectives of artists, museum professionals and scholars. This book should become a working reference for anyone involved in major exhibitions, particularly those aimed at linking museum collections with contemporary art and artists. The debate about museum collections and ownership is now less two-sided and more collaborative when you see the valuable outcomes of the Pasifika Styles exhibition. This project helped to shift the focus on utterly fixed objects unambiguously owned by individuals, communities and institutions to a more relational understanding of the dynamic links between people and things. Pasifika Styles heralds a new era of collaborative curatorship in ethnographic museums, who can now be seen as repositories keeping ancient art works safe so that future generations can draw inspirations from them.
Download or read book Pacific Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collective Creativity written by Katherine Giuffre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective Creativity offers an analysis of the explosion of artistic creativity currently taking place on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga. By exploring the construction of this art-world through the ways in which creativity and innovation are linked to social structures and social networks, this book investigates the social aspects of making fine art in order to present a ’collective’ theory of creativity. With a close examination of tourism, galleries and, of course, the artists themselves, Katherine Giuffre presents a detailed picture of a complex and multi-faceted community through the words of the art-world participants themselves. Theoretically sophisticated, yet grounded with rich empirical data, this book will appeal not only to anthropologists with an interest in the South Pacific, but also to scholars concerned with questions of ethnicity, creativity, globalization and network analysis.
Download or read book Pacific Art written by Anita Herle and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Native Arts Of North America Africa And The South Pacific written by George A. Corbin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the art of tribal peoples of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific does not briefly cover the hundreds of artistic traditions in these three vast areas but rather studies in depth thirty-six art styles within all three areas using the methods of art history, including stylistic analysis and iconographic interpretation. Emphasis is on the art in cultural context and as a system of visual communication within each tribal area. Where appropriate for a more complete understanding of the art, data from archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, religion, and other humanistic disciplines are included.Among the peoples and cultures whose art is studied are the Haida, Kwakiutl, and Tlingit; the Hohokam and Mongollon, the Anasazi and Hopi; the Dogon and Bamana of Mali; the Asante of Ghana; the Benin, Yoruba, and Ibo of Nigeria; the Fan, the Bamum, and the Kuba of Central Africa; Australian aboriginal and Island New Guinea art; Island Melanesia art; central and eastern Polynesia; Hawaii and the Maori in Marginal Polynesia.The format of the text and selected illustrations is based on seventeen years of teaching African, North American Indian, and South Pacific art to undergraduate and graduate students at Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY), New York University, and Columbia University. The book is intended for art history and anthropology students and the interested lay reader or collector. The detailed notes at the end of the book are for further study, research, and understanding of the tribal art style under discussion.
Download or read book Manawa written by Nigel Reading and published by Raupo. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last six years have been a remarkable journey of discovery for the Spirit Wrestler Gallery in Vancouver, Canada. Representing Maori art has been an awakening. Manawa coincides with the tenth anniversary of Spirit Wrestler Gallery. Manawa is not intended as a testament to the 'best in Maori art.' Manawa showcases Maori art through three-dimensional work, especially wood, which is a medium shared by both Northwest Coast and Maori artists, and therefore a natural transition for collectors new to Maori art. The final selection of Maori and Northwest Coast exhibiting artists included those who have developed relationships or forged friendships over many years with the gallery. The overall theme of the book contains beautiful objects carved, woven, blown and painted in many different media. The book contains an extensive introduction by Darcy Nicholas, a well-known and respected contemporary Maori painter, sculptor, writer and commentator on tikanga Maori. It has support from Creative New Zealand, toi ihoTM Maori made, Poutama Trust, Tourism NZ and Toi Maori Aotearoa.The authors dedicate this book to June Northcroft Grant in recognition of her vision, her encouragement and her support in Aotearoa in enabling their dream of publishing this book become a reality.
Download or read book Pacific Arts Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Artistic Heritage in a Changing Pacific written by Philip J. C. Dark and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The great value of [this work] is the uniformly high quality of papers and their revelation of contemporary trends in Oceanic art research.” —Ethnoarts
Download or read book The Art of Clothing A Pacific Experience written by Susan Kuchler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Perspectives Arts of the Pacific Islands written by Anne D'Alleva and published by . This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the Westerner what culture seems more mysterious or exotic than Tahiti or Fiji? Yet, most of us know little about the arts and cultures of these islands. Mingling a deep appreciation for the beauty and variety of arts--sculpture, paintings, textiles, dance, jewelry, and architecture--found in these faraway islands with detailed knowledge of their traditions and meaning, Anne D'Alleva opens to us a beautiful world vibrantly alive.
Download or read book B r tara written by Susan Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, vibrant contemporary cultures are flourishing in the Pacific Islands. Instead of mimicking Western culture, artists there are leading the way. Discover the new art of the Pacific in this wide ranging, superbly illustrated book. It is produced in association with the new Centre Culturel Tijbaou in New Caledonia.
Download or read book Art of the South Pacific written by Cindy Yarawamai and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art curriculum designed in the hope that art teachers will use the lessons and ideas to broaden their knowledge and appreciation of Hawaii and the South Pacific.
Download or read book Arts in the Religions of the Pacific written by Albert C. Moore and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid art forms of Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and New Zealand are rooted in their religious cultures. This relationship is still apparent in the new and ever-evolving art forms of the modern Pacific world.
Download or read book New Zealand Leading the Way in Pacific Contemporary Visual Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samoan Art and Artists written by Sean Mallon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Samoan Art and Artists is a wide-ranging survey of both the traditional and contemporary arts of Samoa. The author has drawn on an extensive research base to present a contemporary and accessible picture of a vibrant culture. The book has a broad sweep, covering all facets of the Samoan arts, including canoe and house building, siapo (tapa) weaving, tattooing, oratory, adornment, all forms of performance art, the visual arts, and literature. An important feature of the book is the inclusion of profiles of living practitioners, both from Samoa and the large Samoan communities in other Pacific countries."--Publisher description.
