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Article: Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island.(Book Review) (book review)
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- Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Eric Kjellgren, ed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2001.8 x 11, 80 pages, 16 color photographs, 58 black-and-white photographs, line drawings. Softcover. ISBN: 0-300-09078-1.
Splendid Isolation is a high quality illustrated catalog produced to accompany an exhibit of Easter Island artifacts that were on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from December 11, 2001, to August 4, 2002.
The publication is divided into four sections: "Introduction: Remote Possibilities" by Eric Kjellgren; "Changing Faces: Rapa Nui Statues in the Social Landscape" by Jo Anne Van Tilburg; "Rapa Nui Art and Aesthetics" ...