| Description |
536 pages : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Nicholas Thomas -- Pt. One. 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 -- Pt. Two. New Guinea 1700-1940. Art, Trade and Exchange: New Guinea 1700-1900 / Nicholas Thomas, Susanne Kuchler and Lissant Bolton -- Art, War and Pacification: New Guinea 1840-1940 / Nicholas Thomas an Susanne Kuchler -- Cosmologies and Collections: New Guinea 1840-1940 / Nicholas Thomas -- Pt. Three. Island Melanesia 1700-1940. Place, Warfare and Trade 1700-1840 / Lissant Bolton -- Incursions: Loss, Continuity and Adaptation 1840-1900 / Lissant Bolton -- Transformations 1890-1940 / Lissant Bolton -- Pt. Four. 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 -- Pt. Five. 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 -- Pt. Six. 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 -- Afterword / Peter Brunt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art -- Oceania.
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| Author |
Brunt, Peter William, 1955-
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Thomas, Nicholas, 1960-
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| LC no. |
2012026213 |
| ISBN |
9780300190281 (hardback) |
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