Repositioning Pacific Arts
by Anne E. Allen (Editor-In-Chief)Adrienne L. Kaeppler (Contribution by)Jackie Lewis-Harris (Contribution by)Hilary Scothorn (Contribution by)Vanya Taulealo (Contribution by)Pauline van der Zee (Contribution by)Caroline Vercoe (Contribution by)Moira White (Contribution by)Susan Kennedy Zeller (Contribution by)Pamela Zeplin (Contribution by)Deborah B. Waite (Editor)Mike Austin (Contribution by)Harry Beran (Contribution by)Christian Coiffier (Contribution by)Ngarino Ellis (Contribution by)Rose Evans (Contribution by)Michael Gunn (Contribution by)Jill Hasell (Contribution by)
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ISBN13: 9781907774232
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In investigating both customary and modern Pacific art, these collected essays present a wide-ranging view across time and space, taking the reader from antiquities to contemporary art and travelling across the region from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Zealand to Samoa. Studies of artefacts and traditions, such as self-portraiture, wood carvings, shields, tapa, dance and masks, use a variety of approaches, some deriving from museum studies while others are based on field investigation. Together they reveal the oppositional tensions between tradition and innovation, and the inspiration this provides for contemporary artistic practice, either through conscious implementation or rejection of past definitions. Engagement with these cultural performances and objects provide new possibilities for the creation of current identities. In this volume, artists, curators and academics, including Maori and other Islanders, bring fresh approaches to Oceanic Art History that will also be interesting to scholars of Indigenous Art more generally. The drafting of antiquities legislation, the tortuous journeys objects have taken to find a place in galleries, the use of exhibitions in cultural exchange, framed by the architecture of museums, as well as the role of film and photography in appropriating Pacific art culture for emerging nationalisms, all of these are considered here to enhance our understanding of indigenous arts place in the world today. These historical perspectives provide the framework in which to explore contemporary acquisition and outreach work with Pacific communities that seeks to reconnect people with objects taken away from the places and intentions of their makers.
| ISBN-13 | 9781907774232 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1907774238 |
| Weight | 1.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.50 x 0.63 x 11.00 In |
| List Price | $155.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 178 pages |
| Publisher | Sean Kingston Publishing |
| Published On | 2014-11-30 |
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