Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands (Metropolitan Museum of Art) - Softcover

Kjellgren, Eric; Ivory, Carol S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300107129 ISBN 13: 9780300107128

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2005

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Reseña del editor:

Renowned as the final refuge of Paul Gauguin, the Marquesas Islands northeast of Tahiti are home to the Enata, a Polynesian people who developed one of the most extraordinary traditions of sculpture and decorative art in the Pacific. This book features works, including many previously unpublished, from the Metropolitan and other museums and private collections, and it explores the fascinating ways in which Marquesan art embodied and enhanced secular and religious life. Created to honour the archipelago's diverse gods and ancestors, adorn the bodies of its people, and decorate everyday objects, art in the Marquesas encompassed virtually every aspect of sacred and secular life. Marquesan art is celebrated for its elegant stylization of the human image and intricately decorated surfaces, while also displaying an astonishing diversity of forms that range from robust figural sculpture in wood and stone to the most elaborate tattooing in the Pacific. Exhibition schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10 May 2005 to 16 January 2006.

Biografía del autor:

Eric Kjellgren is Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Associate Curator for Oceanic Art, Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Carol Ivory is Professor and Chair of the Department of Fine Arts at Washington State University, Pullman.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300107129
• ISBN 13: 9780300107128
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 85