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New Guinea Highlands: Art from the Jolika Collection
John Friede
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Description for New Guinea Highlands: Art from the Jolika Collection
Hardback. The first major publication on the art of the New Guinea Highlands, this extraordinary volume is destined to become the definitive resource on this little-known region. Editor(s): Friede, John; Hays, Terence E.; Hellmich, Ms Christina. Num Pages: 672 pages, 665. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; ACX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 240. .
The Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco consists of thousands of objects and represents hundreds of clans and villages throughout New Guinea. The first book in a projected ten-volume series, this lavishly illustrated volume focuses on the Highlands-a region of rugged mountains, fertile valleys, and a civilization that dates back more than forty thousand years. Here, in more than six hundred pages of rich color, are beautifully crafted masks, shields, headdresses, and ceremonial and personal objects, the majority of which have never before been published or exhibited. Archival and reference photographs, maps ... Read more
The Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco consists of thousands of objects and represents hundreds of clans and villages throughout New Guinea. The first book in a projected ten-volume series, this lavishly illustrated volume focuses on the Highlands-a region of rugged mountains, fertile valleys, and a civilization that dates back more than forty thousand years. Here, in more than six hundred pages of rich color, are beautifully crafted masks, shields, headdresses, and ceremonial and personal objects, the majority of which have never before been published or exhibited. Archival and reference photographs, maps ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Prestel
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
Munich, Germany
ISBN
9783791350554
SKU
V9783791350554
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99-10
About John Friede
JOHN FRIEDE began assembling the Jolika Collection in the 1960s; it is now one of the greatest collections ever assembled by a private individual. TERENCE HAYS, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Rhode Island College, is among the world's experts on art of the New Guinea Highlands. CHRISTINA HELLMICH is Curator of the Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art and of ... Read more
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