Art And Performance In Oceania

Author : Barry Craig
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824822835
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Performance in Oceania written by Barry Craig and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association, titled "Art, Performance, and Society," called for papers in sessions dealing with "Production and Performance," "Social and Cultural Context," "The Record and the Remainder," and "The Mission of Museums." In all, some sixty papers were presented, twenty-four of which have been included in this book. The first two topics elicited several papers that explored the creative process, including the description and analysis of performance, and the taxonomy of objects used, the transmission of cultural knowledge, and the identity and work of individual artists. The second two topics provided the opportunity for papers on some significant early museum collectors and collections, various methods of documenting cultural material (such as photography), how cultural material has been and can be exhibited, and the role of museums and cultural centers in Pacific Island countries.

Author : Diana Looser
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472132385
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving Islands written by Diana Looser and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance

Author : Birgit Abels
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089640851
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austronesian Soundscapes written by Birgit Abels and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birgit Abels is a cultural musicologist with a primary specialization in the music of the Pacific and Southeast Asian islands. --

Author : Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas written by Janet Catherine Berlo and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on the original scholarly contributions, rather than secondary description, this reader in tribal arts exposes the reader to the best original scholarship of 29 noted scholars in anthropology and art history. Each scholarly essay is well-illustrated, often with original field photographs as well as museum objects. For artists, art historians, sociologists, and all those interested in the arts of the fourth world.

Author : Sidney M. Mead
Publisher : Ethnographic Arts Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Artists of Oceania written by Sidney M. Mead and published by Ethnographic Arts Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. Allan Hanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Identity in Oceania written by F. Allan Hanson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Associate Professor Diana Looser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780824897857
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remaking Pacific Pasts written by Associate Professor Diana Looser and published by . This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Although many Pacific Island cultures have a broad range of highly developed indigenous performance forms--including oral narrative, clowning, ritual, dance, and song--scripted drama is a relatively recent phenomenon. Emerging during a period of region-wide decolonization and indigenous self-determination movements, most of these plays reassert Pacific cultural perspectives and performance techniques in ways that employ, adapt, and challenge the conventions and representations of Western theater. Drawing together discussions in theater and performance studies, historiography, Pacific studies, and postcolonial studies, Remaking Pacific Pasts offers the first full-length comparative study of this dynamic and expanding body of work. It introduces readers to the field with an overview of significant works produced throughout the region over the past fifty years, including plays in English and in French, as well as in local vernaculars and lingua francas. The discussion traces the circumstances that have given rise to a particular modern dramatic tradition in each site and also charts routes of theatrical circulation and shared artistic influences that have woven connections beyond national borders. This broad survey contextualizes the more detailed case studies that follow, which focus on how Pacific dramatists, actors, and directors have used theatrical performance to critically engage the Pacific's colonial and postcolonial histories. Chapters provide close readings of selected plays from Hawai'i, Aotearoa/New Zealand, New Caledonia/Kanaky, and Fiji that treat events, figures, and legacies of the region's turbulent past: Captain Cook's encounters, the New Zealand Wars, missionary contact, the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, and the Fiji coups. The book explores how, in their remembering and retelling of these pasts, theater artists have interrogated and revised repressive and marginalizing models of historical understanding developed through Western colonialism or exclusionary indigenous nationalisms, and have opened up new spaces for alternative historical narratives and ways of knowing. In so doing, these works address key issues of identity, genealogy, representation, political parity, and social unity, encouraging their audiences to consider new possibilities for present and future action. This study emphasizes the contribution of artistic production to social and political life in the contemporary Pacific, demonstrating how local play production has worked to facilitate processes of creative nation building and the construction of modern regional imaginaries. Remaking Pacific Pasts makes valuable contributions to Pacific literature, world theater history, Pacific studies, and postcolonial studies. The book opens up to comparative critical discussion a geopolitical region that has received little attention from theater and performance scholars, extending our understanding of the form and function of theater in different cultural contexts. It enriches existing discussions in postcolonial studies about the decolonizing potential of literary and artistic endeavors, and it suggests how theater might function as a mode of historical enquiry and debate, adding to discussions about ways in which Pacific histories might be developed, challenged, or recalibrated. Consequently, the book stimulates new discussions in Pacific studies where theater has, to date, suffered from a lack of critical exposure. Carefully researched and original in its approach, Remaking Pacific Pasts will appeal to scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduate students in theater and performance studies and Pacific Islands studies; it will also be of interest to cultural historians and to specialists in cultural studies and postcolonial studies.

Author : Symposium on the art of Oceania
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of Oceania written by Symposium on the art of Oceania and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maia Nuku
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588397661
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oceania: The Shape of Time written by Maia Nuku and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual arts of Oceania tell a wealth of dynamic stories about origins, ancestral power, performance, and initiation. This publication explores the deeply rooted connections between Austronesian-speaking peoples, whose ancestral homelands span Island Southeast Asia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the island archipelagoes of the northern and eastern Pacific. Unlike previous books, it foregrounds Indigenous perspectives, alongside multidisciplinary research in art history, ethnography, and archaeology, to provide an intimate look at Oceania, its art, and its culture. Stunning new photography highlights more than 130 magnificent objects, ranging from elaborately carved ancestral figures in ceremonial houses, towering slit drums, and dazzling turtle-shell masks to polished whale ivory breastplates. Underscoring the powerful interplay between the ocean and its islands, and the ongoing connection with spiritual and ancestral realms, Oceania: The Shape of Time presents an art-focused approach to life and culture while guiding readers through the artistic achievements of Islanders across millennia.

Author : Diana Looser
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472128604
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving Islands written by Diana Looser and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving Islands reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theater, performance art, art installations, dance, film, and activist performance in sites throughout Oceania and in Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe. Diana Looser’s study moves beyond a predictable country-specific or island-specific focus to encompass an entire region defined by diversity and global exchange, showing how performance operates to frame social, artistic, and political relationships across widely dispersed locations. The study also demonstrates how Oceanian performance contributes to international debates about diaspora, indigeneity, urbanization, and environmental sustainability. The author considers the region’s unique cultural and geographic dynamics as she brings forth the paradigm of transpasifika to suggest a way of understanding these intercultural exchanges and connections, with the aim to “rework the cartographic and disciplinary priorities of transpacific studies to privilege the activities of Islander peoples.”