John Wiley & Sons, 2021. — 546 p. A Companion to Australian Art is a thorough introduction to the art produced in Australia from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to the early 21st century. Beginning with the colonial art made by Australia’s first European settlers, this volume presents a collection of clear and accessible essays by established art historians and emerging...
Harry N. Abrams, 1998. — 180 p. In this comprehensive survey of the art of the Pacific Islands, including the Melanesian, Polynesian, Micronesian, and New Guinean traditions, author Anne D’Alleva explains the significance of these artworks by contextualizing them within each island’s unique culture and practices. In the process, D’Alleva examines the biases of both artists and...
Adelaida: Department of Education and Children’s Services. 2010. — 34 p. The exhibition Desert Country is drawn entirely from the extensive holdings of Aboriginal art in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s pioneering collection. It is the first exhibition to chart the evolution of the internationally acclaimed Australian desert painting movement. Spanning a period of over sixty...
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979. — 371 p. In spite of the wealth it has to offer, the art of the Pacific Islands remains perhaps the least known of the world’s art to the modern audience. Throughout this mass of islands there existed hundreds of cultures, many of them sustained by only a few hundred people. The cultures developed into richly disparate modes with...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 256 p. — (Oxford History of Art).
Comprising thousands of islands and hundreds of cultural groups, Polynesia and Micronesia cover a large part of the vast Pacific Ocean, from the dramatic mountains of Hawaii to the small, flat coral islands of Kiribati. The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia offers a superb introduction to the rich...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2005. — 142 p. Known for the elegance and complexity of their decorative art, Marquesan artists were described by Paul Gauguin as possessing "an unheard of sense of decoration" in all they created. The extraordinary ways in which Marquesans adorned their world are reflected in virtually every type of object they made and used—from sacred...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. — 372 p. Oceania, which includes the islands of the central and South Pacific, covers one third of the earth, an area larger than that of all the continents combined. From the dense rain forests of New Guinea to the spice-rich islands of Indonesia, the tropical archipelagos of Polynesia and Micronesia, and the deserts of Australia,...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 268 p. This comprehensive survey uniquely covers both Aboriginal art and that of European Australians, providing a revealing examination of the interaction between the two. Painting, photography, bark painting, rock art, sculpture, and the decorative arts are all explored to display the rich texture of Australian art traditions. Well-known artists...
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