Form Colour Inspiration: Oceanic Art from New Britain

Ingrid Heermann, Linden-Museum Stuttgart

ISBN 10: 3897901641 / ISBN 13: 9783897901643

Published by Arnoldsche, Stuttgart, 1999

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208 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm. Compiled to accompany an exhibition at the Linden-Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. ontents: The poetry of Oceanic art / Philippe Peltier Towards a new sight : steps towards understanding extra-European art / Christian Kaufmann The art of New Britain ; The Tolai / Ingrid Heermann The role of pokopoko in Tolai dance and ceremony / Julie To'Liman-Turalir Baining art / Ingrid Heermann The ritual aesthetics of the Sulka / Monique Jeudy-Ballini Shields : art for war and dance / Ulrich Menter Nakanai art / Ingrid Heermann Art and design among the Arawe / Chantal Knowles, Chris Gosden West New Britain and the Witu Islands / Ingrid Heermann Kilenge art in dance and ceremony / Philip J.C. Dark The Island of New Britain ; Prehistory ; Discovery and colonisation ; Ethnographic keywords ; Collections and collectors ; Art today / Ingrid Heermann.

Seller Inventory # 7cb900

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Form Colour Inspiration: Oceanic Art from New Britain
• Publisher: Arnoldsche, Stuttgart
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3897901641
• ISBN 13: 9783897901643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Pacific
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

This is the first publication to provide an extensive survey of the arts of New Britain, part of Papua New Guinea. The major focus is on the arts of the Baining, Sulka, Nakanai, who in connection with cult festivities and secret societies have produced an astonishing collection. From the head masks used in ritual dances and the stone sculptures of the Inuit secret society to the bold paintings of the Nakanai, the illustrated objects help to explain why it was the art of this region that ideally expressed Surrealist conceptions. Max Ernst and Paul Klee in their sculptures and paintings indeed found related solutions. Through their adaptations of New Britain art, its abstractional and fantastic have become artistic ways of expression familiar to a wide audience. This is only one reason for the fascination of confronting these originals, of which the background - world view, values and questions of artistic activity - and historical context is explained and discussed with photographs and texts.