Peter Gathercole, Adrienne L. Kaeppler, and Douglas Newton
Published 1979
366 pages
In spite of the wealth it has to offer, the art of the Pacific
Islands remains perhaps the least known of the world’s art to the modern
audience. Throughout this mass of islands there existed hundreds of
cultures, many of them sustained by only a few hundred people. The
cultures developed into richly disparate modes with elaborate social
systems and highly refined systems of intellectual and religious life.
Most striking of all, however, is that these cultures created an
extraordinary range of art styles to express and serve their beliefs.
The aim of the exhibition this catalog accompanied was to highlight
objects that were made before or collected at the earliest contact by
Westerners, and which therefore reflect the most pristine state of the
cultures. Many of the works included had never before been published or
exhibited.
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