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Oceania: Art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Door Eric Kjellgren

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#397884-KO41
Titel
Oceania: Art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Auteur
Kjellgren, Eric
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jaar van uitgave
2007
ISBN10
0300120303
ISBN13
9780300120301
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original orange cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous photographs in colour, 4to.
Samenvatting
In aesthetic quality, significance, and scope, the Metropolitan Museum's Oceanic, or Pacific Islands, collection is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. This generously illustrated volume features some 200 masterworks from the more than 2,600 objects currently in the collection, and it is published to coincide with the opening of the Museum's new galleries of Oceanic art. An overview of Oceanic art and a history of the Metropolitan's collection are followed by detailed chapters devoted to each of the five major cultural regions of the Pacific: Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the islands of Southeast Asia. Among the notable works discussed are a monumental Baining barkcloth figure, a spectacular shield from the Solomon Islands, the Museum's renowned Torres... (Lees verder) Strait mask and acclaimed Mangarevan wooden male figure, a weather charm from the Caroline Islands, and textiles from the regions of Lampung and Sumba, in Sumatra. A glossary and selected bibliography conclude this essential guide.
Pagina's
354
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 35,00

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