Varilaku: Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands

Varilaku: Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands
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Through 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.
Country USA
Brand National Gallery of Australia
Manufacturer National Gallery of Australia
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780642334206
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780642334206
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	National Gallery of Australia
Manufacturer	National Gallery of Australia
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780642334206
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780642334206
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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