Oceania : the shape of time / Maia Nuku.

Made up of the multiple island communities contained within Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, Oceania is known for works of art and ritual objects that tell a wealth of stories about origins, ancestral power, performance, and initiation. Diverging from the approaches that categorize...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nuku, Maia (Author)
Corporate Authors: Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China) (Host institution)
National Museum of Qatar (Doha, Qatar) (Host institution)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (Issuing body, Host institution)
Other Authors: Hollein, Max (writer of foreword.)
Refiti, Albert L. (Contributor)
Language:English
Published: New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2023]
Subjects:
Art > Oceania > Exhibitions.
Art, Pacific Island > Exhibitions.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). > Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas > Exhibitions.
Art objects > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions.
Art > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). > Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
Art.
Art, Pacific Island.
Oceania.
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 28 cm
Variant Title:
Shape of time
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Artifacts of relations and the gatherers of horizons / Leali'ifano Albert L. Refiti
  • Map of Oceania
  • Voyaging : plates 1-35
  • Ancestry : plates 36-77
  • Time : plates 78-133
  • Notes
  • Selected reading
  • Checklist of plates