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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811600703321

Titolo

Repositioning Pacific arts : artists, objects, histories : proceedings of the VII International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association, Christchurch, New Zealand / / edited by Anne E. Allen, with Deborah B. Waite

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canon Pyon, [England] : , : Sean Kingston Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-907774-76-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Art - Oceania

Art, Pacific Island

Art - Collectors and collecting - Oceania

Material culture - Oceania

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 an travelling across the region from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Island, 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 through rejection of past definitions --