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Varilaku: Pacific Arts From The Solomon Islands
by Howarth, Crispin & Deborah White
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
National Gallery of Australia, NGA Canberra 2011. 27.0 x 21.5cms, 128pp, colour illusts, fine paperback & cover This exhibition presented 60 works to explore the Islanders' traditional kastom, ie beliefs in ancestral ghosts, spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expediitons & indigenous aethetics of the self. It was the first exhibiiton to gather works from all the main Australian collections and to present the regional diversity of the Island's figurative sculptures.
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- THE CROSS Art + Books
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- Title
- Varilaku: Pacific Arts From The Solomon Islands
- Author
- Howarth, Crispin & Deborah White
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- National Gallery of Australia, NGA Canberra 2011
- Keywords
- tribal melanesian artefacts artifacts anthropology adornment jewellery jewelry .
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
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THE CROSS ART + BOOKS
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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