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Article: Oceanic Art
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- The Australian Journal of Anthropology
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Nicholas Thomas. Oceanic Art. Melbourne: Thames and Hudson. 1995. 216pp., illust., bibliog., index. $22.95 (Pb.), ISBN 0-500-20281-1. Harry Beran
Philosophy, University of Wollongong
Almost forty years after the inception of its World of Art series, Thames and Hudson have at last added to it a volume on Oceanic visual art. It follows earlier volumes on the Native Arts of North America (1980), African Art (1993) and Australian Aboriginal Art (1993).
The traditional art of Oceania has in the last decades been recognised as an outstanding part of the world's artistic heritage. Probably no other population of comparable size has ever produced such a great quantity and variety of superb art ...