Oceania: Art of the Pacific Islands in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
By Eric Kjellgren.
Description
In aesthetic quality, significance, and scope, the Metropolitan Museum’s Oceanic, or Pacific Islands, collection is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. This generously illustrated volume features some 200 masterworks from the more than 2,600 objects currently in the collection, and it is published to coincide with the opening of the Museum’s new galleries of Oceanic art. An overview of Oceanic art and a history of the Metropolitan’s collection are followed by detailed chapters devoted to each of the five major cultural regions of the Pacific: Austra...
ISBN(s)
0300120303, 9780300120301
