Oceania Art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Eric Kjellgren

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Oct 14, 2018 Hannu Kokko rated it really liked it

Metropolitan museum of arts has such a keen collection of art from Oceania that must be seen in person to sympathize. They made a volume out of a few items from the collection. The volume has quite extensive notes about history of the region as related to the arts and each of the art pieces that is presented in the book. What is dandy about the book that they have in addition photographs from the 1800s to 1970s of locals using or wearing the art. Much is lost in the 1800s and fifty-fifty to 1960s of the o Metropolitan museum of arts has such a great drove of art from Oceania that must be seen in person to understand. They made a book out of a few items from the collection. The book has quite extensive notes about history of the region as related to the arts and each of the art pieces that is presented in the volume. What is cracking about the book that they have in addition photographs from the 1800s to 1970s of locals using or wearing the art. Much is lost in the 1800s and fifty-fifty to 1960s of the original art just what remains is meticulously and interestingly documented in here. ...more than

Art books featuring artworks and artifacts from the non-Western world are always an interesting experience. On the one manus, I honey the beautiful color photographs of objects--merely the opportunity to gaze at the intricacies and patterns of carving, weaving, painting. Simply on the other hand, it's an odd feeling, looking at these drastically out-of-context objects, floating against their sterile light-gray backgrounds, so far from where they originally came from. The privilege of looking at them no

Art books featuring artworks and artifacts from the not-Western world are always an interesting experience. On the one hand, I dear the beautiful color photographs of objects--but the opportunity to gaze at the intricacies and patterns of carving, weaving, painting. But on the other mitt, it's an odd feeling, looking at these drastically out-of-context objects, floating against their sterile calorie-free-grayness backgrounds, so far from where they originally came from. The privilege of looking at them now, collected in the Metropolitan and at present in this book, comes because Europeans traveled and bought or traded for the objects years agone. And I know from living in Papua New Republic of guinea that some people in the places of origin feel that the objects should come back home. It'southward a complicated issue, to be sure.

In spite of the complexities, however, I did enjoy Eric Kjellgren'due south tour of the Metropolitan Oceania drove. I saw a lot of items that I've never seen earlier, as well as some objects that are very much like art I've seen "in-context" in my work throughout PNG. Sprinkled throughout the book are historical pictures of like items in their original contexts; I would've appreciated even more such photos, which tended to burn down up my imagination of dissimilar places and different times. Another chemical element I wanted more of was maps. The volume includes but two very general maps at the beginning--inadequate for book's content. I would've liked each regional section to begin with more than detailed maps, pointing out the places that are mentioned in that section.

These are relatively minor criticisms, though. The book is beautiful, and I enjoyed my read-through. What endures every bit the virtually significant thing nigh the volume is how thorough a collection the Metropolitan has. They take representative examples of an amazing number of major Oceanic traditions.

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