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Oceania art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Eric Kjellgren
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Kjellgren, Eric, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Catalogs.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).
- Art, Pacific Island--Catalogs.
- Art, Pacific Island.
- Art, Melanesian--Catalogs.
- Art, Melanesian.
- Art--New Guinea--Catalogs.
- Art.
- Art, Australian--Catalogs.
- Art, Australian.
- Art--Malay Archipelago--Catalogs.
- Art, Micronesian--Catalogs.
- Art, Micronesian.
- Art, Polynesian--Catalogs.
- Art, Polynesian.
- Art--New York (State)--New York--Catalogs.
- Asia--Malay Archipelago.
- New Guinea.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Catalogs
- Collection catalogs
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 354 pages) illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art New Haven Yale University Press [2007]
- System Details:
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
- Summary:
- "Oceania, which includes the islands of the central and South Pacific, covers one third of the earth, an area larger than that of all the continents combined. From the dense rain forests of New Guinea to the spice-rich islands of Indonesia, the tropical archipelagoes of Polynesia and Micronesia, and the deserts of Australia, Oceania's peoples have developed hundreds of distinct artistic traditions that encompass an astonishing variety of forms and media. The remarkable imagery of Oceanic art has had a direct influence on many of the most important artists of the Western canon, from Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso to the German Expressionists and the Surrealists, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses one of the world's premier collections of art from this region. Published in celebration of the opening of the Metropolitan's newly reinstalled galleries for the arts of Oceania, this generously illustrated volume, the first to survey the breadth of the Museum's collection, provides an introduction to the region's rich artistic heritage through more than two hundred masterworks. An overview of Oceanic art and a history of the Metropolitan's collection are followed by informative introductory essays on the major cultural regions of the Pacific. Detailed discussions of the individual objects place these outstanding Oceanic works in their historical and cultural contexts. Highlights include selections from the Museum's holdings of sculpture from Polynesia and the Sepik region of New Guinea, religious images from Island Melanesia, and Island Southeast Asian textiles. A glossary and selected bibliography conclude this comprehensive volume" -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website
- Contents:
- Map of Oceania
- Map of Melanesia
- New Guinea
- Australia
- Island Melanesia
- Island Southeast Asia
- Micronesia
- Polynesia
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-345) and index
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
- Print version record
- Other Format:
- Print version Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Oceania
- OCLC:
- 608155667
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