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Splendid isolation art of Easter Island by Eric Kjellgren with contributions by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and Adrienne L. Kaeppler
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kjellgren, Eric
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antiquities, Prehistoric--Easter Island--Exhibitions.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric.
- Art--Easter Island--Exhibitions.
- Art.
- Antiquities.
- Easter Island--Antiquities--Exhibitions.
- Easter Island.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (79, [1] pages) illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- New York Metropolitan Museum of Art [2001]
- 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:
- Few Pacific Islands hold as prominent a place in the Western imagination as Easter Island. The most remote inhabited place on earth, Easter Island (now a province of modern-day Chile) is home to the Rapa Nui, a Polynesian people who developed a unique series of artistic traditions. While the island is renowned for the colossal stone figures that adorned its temples, much of its other art remains unfamiliar to wider audiences. This book examines the island's diverse artistic heritage and discusses more than fifty works, ranging from robust stone images to refined wood sculpture, rare barkcloth figures, and examples of rongorongo, the island's unique and undeciphered script. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website
- Contents:
- Sponsor's Statement Director's Foreword Philippe De Montebello Introduction: Remote Possibilities Eric Kjellgren Changing Faces: Rapa Nui Statues in the Social Landscape Jo Anne Van Tilburg Rapa Nui Art and Aesthetics Adrienne L. Kaeppler
- Notes:
- Exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from Dec. 11, 2001 to Aug. 4, 2002
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-80) and index
- Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011
- Print version record
- Other Format:
- Print version Kjellgren, Eric. Splendid isolation
- ISBN:
- 0300090811
- 9780300090819
- OCLC:
- 812614112
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