Screen LibraryNew Guinea Highlands : art from the Jolika Collection /
"This is the first major museum publication dedicated to New Guinea Highlands art, celebrating its dynamism, innovative forms, and extraordinary use of materials and recognizing generations of Highlands artists. The Jolika Collection represents decades of focused connoisseurship. The Friedes, m...
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; DelMonico Books, Prestel,
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| Publisher Address: | San Francisco, CA : Munich : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This is the first major museum publication dedicated to New Guinea Highlands art, celebrating its dynamism, innovative forms, and extraordinary use of materials and recognizing generations of Highlands artists. The Jolika Collection represents decades of focused connoisseurship. The Friedes, members of the Fine Arts Museums staff, scholars of Highlands visual culture, and anthropologists from around the globe have contributed their expertise to this book, researching and recording the collection's works so that they can be shared with the public"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 665 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783791350554 3791350552 |
| Index Number: | N7411 |
| CLC: | J161.3 |
| Call Number: | J161.3/N532 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Early art in New Guinea: glimpses from prehistory / The antiquity of agriculture / Loops of connection: the Bilum and the aesthetics of well-being / Birds in art and adornment / Body, display, and the cosmos in highlands Papua New Guinea / Shields of the Highlands of New Guinea / Kaipel Ka, shield painter / Encounters in the Highlands of New Guinea / |