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Art in Oceania : a new history

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 2012.Description: 536 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9780500239018
  • 0500239010
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Art in early Oceania. Aesthetic traces : the settlement of Western Oceania / Lissant Bolton ; After Lapita : voyaging and monumental architecture c. 900 BC-c. AD 1700 / Deidre Brown and Peter Brunt -- New Guinea 1700-1940. Art, trade and exchange : New Guinea 1700-1900 / Nicholas Thomas, Susanne Küchler and Lissant Bolton ; Art, war and pacification : New Guinea 1840-1940 / Nicholas Thomas and Susanne Küchler ; Cosmologies and collections : New Guinea 1840-1940 / Nicholas Thomas -- Island Melanesia 1700-1940. Place, warfare and trade 1700-1840 / Lissant Bolton ; Incursions : loss, continuity and adaptation 1840-1900 / Lissant Bolton ; Transformations 1890-1940 / Lissant Bolton -- Eastern and northern Oceania 1700-1940. Political transformations : art and power 1700-1800 / Deidre Brown ; European incursions 1765-1880 / Nicholas Thomas ; Colonial styles : architecture and indigenous modernity / Deidre Brown -- Art, war and the end of empire 1940-89. War and visual culture 1939-45 / Sean Mallon ; Decolonization, independence and cultural revival 1945-89 / Peter Brunt ; Tourist art and its markets 1945-89 / Sean Mallon -- Art in Oceania now 1989-2012. Contemporary Pacific art and its globalization / Peter Brunt ; Urban art and popular culture / Sean Mallon ; Continuity and change in customary arts / Damian Skinner and Lissant Bolton.
Summary: The arts of Oceania are astonishing: great statues, daunting tattoos, dynamic carving, dazzling woven and painted fabrics, intricately carved weapons, and a bewildering variety of ornaments, ritual objects, and utilitarian but beautiful things. This landmark book breaks new ground by setting the art of Oceania in its full historical context and capturing an up-to-date understanding of the field. From archaeological findings of prehistoric art to the impact of pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial historical processes, it explores influences such as migration, trade, missionaries, pacification, tourism, nationalism and contemporary market factors, offering abundant new interpretations and addressing significant gaps in other publications. Factors that have been largely neglected until now, including the role of museums, the significance of colonial photography, indigenous modernisms and contemporary Pacific art, are covered alongside the familiar canon. This beautifully illustrated volume will appeal to general readers interested in world art, collectors, university students, scholars and museum professionals in the field. This book reveals the art of Oceania as profoundly dynamic, at once grounded in tradition and customary society, and full of innovation. It ranges from the earliest archaeological evidence through to the modern and contemporary arts of the last fifty years. It does justice to the extraordinary variety of Pacific cultures, from those of the Highlands of New Guinea to the atolls of Micronesia and the Easter Island. It ranges across genres, from ancient rock art through ritual architecture to contemporary painting and installation art, as no previous survey has done. Its hallmark is the argument that art in Oceania is a product of history -- from the changing relations among Pacific peoples in a profoundly interconnected world of voyaging and exchange, to their resilience and creativity in the face of colonial intrusions and the challenges of globalization. It reinterprets what have long been considered icons of Oceanic art, in the context of the colonial encounters that shaped them, and brings the story of Oceania's modernisms into view as part of contemporary history.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library NZ & Pacific NZ & Pacific NZ&P N 7410 ART (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Use in Library Only - Not for Loan 0009506

Peter Brunt, Sean Mallon, Deidre Brown and Damian Skinner are New Zealand authors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Art in early Oceania. Aesthetic traces : the settlement of Western Oceania / Lissant Bolton ; After Lapita : voyaging and monumental architecture c. 900 BC-c. AD 1700 / Deidre Brown and Peter Brunt -- New Guinea 1700-1940. Art, trade and exchange : New Guinea 1700-1900 / Nicholas Thomas, Susanne Küchler and Lissant Bolton ; Art, war and pacification : New Guinea 1840-1940 / Nicholas Thomas and Susanne Küchler ; Cosmologies and collections : New Guinea 1840-1940 / Nicholas Thomas -- Island Melanesia 1700-1940. Place, warfare and trade 1700-1840 / Lissant Bolton ; Incursions : loss, continuity and adaptation 1840-1900 / Lissant Bolton ; Transformations 1890-1940 / Lissant Bolton -- Eastern and northern Oceania 1700-1940. Political transformations : art and power 1700-1800 / Deidre Brown ; European incursions 1765-1880 / Nicholas Thomas ; Colonial styles : architecture and indigenous modernity / Deidre Brown -- Art, war and the end of empire 1940-89. War and visual culture 1939-45 / Sean Mallon ; Decolonization, independence and cultural revival 1945-89 / Peter Brunt ; Tourist art and its markets 1945-89 / Sean Mallon -- Art in Oceania now 1989-2012. Contemporary Pacific art and its globalization / Peter Brunt ; Urban art and popular culture / Sean Mallon ; Continuity and change in customary arts / Damian Skinner and Lissant Bolton.

The arts of Oceania are astonishing: great statues, daunting tattoos, dynamic carving, dazzling woven and painted fabrics, intricately carved weapons, and a bewildering variety of ornaments, ritual objects, and utilitarian but beautiful things. This landmark book breaks new ground by setting the art of Oceania in its full historical context and capturing an up-to-date understanding of the field. From archaeological findings of prehistoric art to the impact of pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial historical processes, it explores influences such as migration, trade, missionaries, pacification, tourism, nationalism and contemporary market factors, offering abundant new interpretations and addressing significant gaps in other publications. Factors that have been largely neglected until now, including the role of museums, the significance of colonial photography, indigenous modernisms and contemporary Pacific art, are covered alongside the familiar canon. This beautifully illustrated volume will appeal to general readers interested in world art, collectors, university students, scholars and museum professionals in the field. This book reveals the art of Oceania as profoundly dynamic, at once grounded in tradition and customary society, and full of innovation. It ranges from the earliest archaeological evidence through to the modern and contemporary arts of the last fifty years. It does justice to the extraordinary variety of Pacific cultures, from those of the Highlands of New Guinea to the atolls of Micronesia and the Easter Island. It ranges across genres, from ancient rock art through ritual architecture to contemporary painting and installation art, as no previous survey has done. Its hallmark is the argument that art in Oceania is a product of history -- from the changing relations among Pacific peoples in a profoundly interconnected world of voyaging and exchange, to their resilience and creativity in the face of colonial intrusions and the challenges of globalization. It reinterprets what have long been considered icons of Oceanic art, in the context of the colonial encounters that shaped them, and brings the story of Oceania's modernisms into view as part of contemporary history.

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