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African, Pacific, and pre-Columbian art in the Indiana University Art Museum

essays by Roy Sieber, Douglas Newton, Michael D. Coe ; organized by Patricia Darish

Indiana University Art Museum in association with Indiana University Press , Distributed by Indiana University Press, c1986

  • Indiana University Press : pbk

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"A catalog prepared in conjunction with the installation of the gallery of African, Pacific, and pre-Columbian art"--T.p. verso

Includes Bibliographies

Contents of Works

  • The art of pre-Columbian America / Michael D. Coe
  • Visual arts of the Pacific / Douglas Newton
  • African arts / Roy Sieber

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Description

The rich holdings of African, Pacific, and Pre-Columbian art in the Indiana University Art Museum constitute one of the finest collections of its kind in the United States. This catalog reproduces and describes in detail more than 160 selected examples of the traditional arts of these diverse cultures. Three of the world's leading specialists have contributed substantial essays on the stylistic, cultural, and historical characteristics of artistic production in each of these ares: Michael D. Coe surveys the arts of Mexico, Central America, and Peru; Douglas Newton introduces the arts of New Guinea, the Melanesian islands, and the Polynesian triangle, and Roy Sieber provides an overview of the range of materials, inventiveness of forms, and variety of uses of traditional African works of art.

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