The making of Asmat art : indigenous art in a world perspective / Nick Stanley
- Title
- The making of Asmat art : indigenous art in a world perspective / Nick Stanley
- Published by
- Canon Pyon, UK : Sean Kingston Publishing, 2012.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 249 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "... explores the way major collections were made and examines the motivations of the collectors, their relationships with those from whom they purchased and the circumstances of the exchange. It also considers the involvement of artists and film-makers, anthropologists, representatives of the civil authorities and missionaries."--back cover.
- Subject
- Contents
- Absent presences -- The historical appearance of Asmat -- Asmat engagement with the Dutch colonial world, 1949-62 -- Museum scholars and collectors -- Anthropological missionaries and the Indonesian state -- Making carving work: development programs in the 1970s -- The Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress: the revitalization of tradition -- Consolidating new art forms -- Visual adventures -- Dazzling the anthropologists.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. [212]-232) and index
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain