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Title Art in Oceania : a new history / Peter Brunt [and six others] ; edited by Peter Brunt and Nicholas Thomas ; assisted by Stella Ramage.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012]

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 GDL Brand Library Non-Fiction    709.95 ART    Available
Description 536 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 510-526) and index.
Contents Art in early Oceania. Aesthetic traces : the settlement of Western Oceania / Lissant Bolton -- After Lapita : voyaging and monumental architecture c. 900 BC-c. AD 1700 / Deidre Brown and Peter Brunt -- New Guinea 1700-1940. Art, trade and exchange : New Guinea 1700-1900 / Nicholas Thomas, Susanne Küchler and Lissant Bolton -- Art, war and paciifcation : New Guinea 1840-1940 / Nicholas Thomas and Susanne Küchler -- Cosmologies and collections : New Guinea 1840-1940 / Nicholas Thomas -- Island Melanesia 1700-1940. Place, warfare and trade 1700-1840 -- Incursions : loss, continuity and adaptation 1840-1900 -- Transformations 1890-1940 / Lissant Bolton -- Eastern and northern Oceania 1700-1940. Political transformations : art and power 1700-1800 / Deidre Brown -- European incursions 1765-1880 / Nicholas Thomas -- Colonial styles : architecture and indigenous modernity / Deidre Brown -- Art, war and the end of empire 1940-89. War and visual culture 1939-45 / Sean Mallon -- Decolonization, independence and cultural revival 1945-89 / Peter Brunt -- Tourist art and its markets 1945-89 / Sean Mallon -- Art in Oceania now 1989-2012. Contemporary Pacific art and its globalization / Peter Brunt -- Urban art and popular culture / Sean Mallon -- Continuity and change in customary arts / Damian Skinner and Lissant Bolton.
Subject Art -- Oceania.
Added Author Brunt, Peter William, 1955- editor of compilation.
Thomas, Nicholas, 1960- editor of compilation.
Bolton, Lissant, 1954- Aesthetic traces.
ISBN 9780300190281 cloth alkaline paper
030019028X cloth alkaline paper
9780500239018
0500239010

 
    
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