Item #172993 Varilaku: Pacific Arts from The Solomon Islands. Crispin Howarth, Deborah Waite.
Varilaku: Pacific Arts from The Solomon Islands
Varilaku: Pacific Arts from The Solomon Islands

Varilaku: Pacific Arts from The Solomon Islands

Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2011. Paperback. Glossy color-illustrated wraps with red and gray lettering. 128 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Color map. VG. Item #172993
ISBN: 9780642334206

"Through over 60 works, Varilaku: Pacific arts from the Soloman Islands explores the finest traditional Solomon Islands art in Australia's museums and galleries, Varilaku explores kastom beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions, and the Indigenous aesthetics of the self--the use of adornments to express identity and status from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. The earliest accounts by travelers to the region note the particular finesse, care, and attention given by Solomon Islanders to their arts. Pitch-black surfaces, gleaming inlaid sections of shell, and distended faces are only some of the distinct features of the works in Varilaku. Figurative sculpture varies from one island to the next: abstraction in the northern islands, clustered shell inlay in the southern islands, and sublime naturalism in the western islands." --Back cover.

OCLC: 696955260

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