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Adorning the World, Art of the Marquesas Islands
by Eric Kjellgren • Carol Ivory
- ART & ARCHITECTURE
- 2005
- PAPER
- 85 PAGES
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Published in conjunction with an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this book features 90 color and 20 black-and-white illustrations of intrricately decorated art from incised ivory and wood to decorated cloth to early engravings showing full-body tattoos. The Western world associates this region with artistic inspiration because of Paul Gauguin's famous sojourn here, but the author, the Associate Curator for Oceanic Art at The Met, focuses on indigenous art, both secular and religious.
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