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Double Vision: Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas (Editor); Diane Losche (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Taking as its departure point Bernard Smith's classic study, European Vision and the South Pacific (1960), Double Vision explores the ambivalences of European perceptions of the Pacific and juxtaposes them with the indigenous visual cultures that challenge Western assumptions about art and representatio ...Show more
Marquesan Societies - Inequality and Political Transformation in Eastern Polynesia by Nicholas Thomas
$80.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good-very good
Marquesan society has long captured the interest of European observers, in part because of unfamiliar institutions such as polyandry. However, due to complex and destructive historical changes and the very scattered nature of early source-materials, the distinctive Marquesan developments ofPolynesian so ...Show more
Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas
$14.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Series: World of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
?An eloquent reading of images produced by peoples in the Pacific? ? Art Monthly Looking at and beyond the dazzling colours and patterns of the ?primitive? art of the Pacific Islands to explore the significance of the art, past and present. Nicholas Thomas shows how each region is characterized by its o ...Show more
Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture by Nicholas Thomas
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Interplay S. | Reading Level: very good
Tribal art has been one of the great inspirations of 20th-century Western art. Europeans such as Picasso, Matisse, Ernst and Brancusi created their own responses to masks, sculpture and other forms of African, Oceanic and American art. But is this a cross-cultural discovery to be celebrated, or just one ...Show more
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