Adorning the world : art of the Marquesas Islands / Eric Kjellgren, with Carol S. Ivory.
"The imagery of Marquesan art is testament to the myriad beings and creatures who inhabited the Marquesan universe - gods, ancestors, humans, lizards, turtles, fish - and to the islands' complex social and political organization. These art forms are explored in the present volume, publishe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York : New Haven [Conn.] :
Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press,
[2005]
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| Summary: | "The imagery of Marquesan art is testament to the myriad beings and creatures who inhabited the Marquesan universe - gods, ancestors, humans, lizards, turtles, fish - and to the islands' complex social and political organization. These art forms are explored in the present volume, published in conjunction with the exhibition "Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 10, 2005-Jan. 15, 2006. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 128 pages : illustrations (some colour), 1 map ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-121) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1588391469 9781588391469 0300107129 9780300107128 |