Affinities of form : arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas from the Raymond and Laura Wielgus collection
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書誌事項
Affinities of form : arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas from the Raymond and Laura Wielgus collection
Prestel, c1996
大学図書館所蔵 全7件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Catalogue of an exhibition organized by Indiana University Art Museum
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-230) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This is both a study of the art of collecting and of the objects in the Wielgus collection at Indiana University Art Museum. The museum houses one of the finest collections of indgenous art in the world - the product of one man's acquisition over a period of just 20 years. This text examines the motives that led Raymond Wielgus to become a collector and that guided him to his chosen field. Wielgus originally made his name as a maker of high-quality prototype models for potential new products in the manufacturing industry, and the book shows how the experience gained in this profession moulded his view of the art of collecting. It lists the criteria that he applied to the objects to be included in the collection and assess the importance of the skill with which they were eventually displayed. The collection spans in excess of three thousand years of ethnographic art and contains works produced by the indigenous peoples of Africa, the islands of the Pacific (for example, Polynesia), and the Americas.
The book begins by analyzing the sources of the objects amassed since the dawn of collecting ethnographic objects in the early 1800s and discusses how representative thay are of their cultures of origins. It puts the Wielgus collection in context with other notable collections. The text acknowledges the probable damage that enthusiastic collecting has inflicted upon some of the sites from which these artefacts derive, but argues that this has been in part offset by the spread of knowledge through the literature published on the great collections. 100 of the most important objects from the Wielgus collection are illustrated in colour, and the photographs are divided into three sections: Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, and the importance of each is analyzed in the context of the history of the respective geographical regions.
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