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Oceania : the shape of time

Nuku, Maia, author, Hollein, Max, writer of foreword, Refiti, Albert L., contributor, Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China), host institution, National Museum of Qatar (Doha, Qatar), host institution, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution

Overview

Made up of the multiple island communities contained within Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, Oceania is known for works of art and ritual objects that tell a wealth of stories about origins, ancestral power, performance, and initiation. Diverging from the approaches that categorize Oceanic art by region, this book considers the connections between all Austronesian-speaking peoples, whose ancestral homes span Southeast Asia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the island archipelagoes of the North and East Pacific. A focus on the objects themselves -- from carved ancestral figures in ceremonial houses to ritual regalia such as slit drums, skull reliquaries, and turtle-shell masks -- provides a look at Oceania as a whole with support from multidisciplinary research in art history, ethnography, and archaeology.

• Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Distributed by Yale University Press
• Subject: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Exhibitions. / Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas / Art Oceania Exhibitions. / Art, Pacific Island Exhibitions. / Art objects New York (State) New York Exhibitions. / Art New York (State) New York Exhibitions. / Art Océanie Expositions. / Art océanien Expositions. / Objets d'art New York (État) New York Expositions. / Art New York (État) New York Expositions. / Art / Art, Pacific Island / Tāngata o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. / Oceania
• ISBN: 1588397661, 9781588397669

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