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OAC Journal Book Reviews

Tattooed History: The Story of Mokomokai

03/03/2022 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

2021, 180 pages, Robert K. Paterson, 5 continents www.fivecontinents.com Reviewed by Crispin Howarth Every once in a while, a publication comes along which deep dives into a specific Pacific subject. This is one of those rare publications and it is likely to be the sole reference for these cultural objects for some time to come. […]

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V27 Issue 1

Balgo: The Creative Country

02/03/2022 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

2021, 396 pages, John Carty, UWA Publishing Crawley WA Review by Margaret Cassidy While in my final term break of my undergraduate degree in Art History in 1986 I visited the Adult Education Centre at Balgo (Wirrimanu), a remote Aboriginal community on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert at its intersection with the Kimberley […]

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V27 Issue 1

Man Who Cannot Die – Phantom Shields of the New Guinea Highlands

29/08/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

2021, 296 pages, Edited by Jonathan Fogel, with contributions from Chris Boylan, Bruce Cree, Hubert Langmann, Kevin Patrick, and Jessica Lindsey Phillips.  Sydney & Toronto: Boylan and Phillips. Reviewed by Noelle Rathmell-Stiels Published just weeks after the comic book superhero, The Phantom, celebrated his 85th birthday, this new book will appeal to everyone interested in a unique […]

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V26 Issue 3

The Whole Picture

29/08/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Image: George Nuku, 2021, The red wall, lithographs of the Atlas du voyage de l’Astrolabe, reworked and polystyrene frame at Musée Hèbre Rochefort, France.  Photograph: Clémentine Débrosse. 2020, 304 pages, Alice Procter, Cassell Books, London Reviewed by Margaret Cassidy Australian born Alice Procter grew up in Hong Kong and London and completed her university studies at the University College […]

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V26 Issue 3

Djalkiri-Yolŋu art, collaborations and collections

31/05/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

2021, 320 pages, Edited by Rebecca J. Conway, Sydney University Press Reviewed by Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby Djalkiri-Yolŋu art, collaborations and collections is an elegantly designed book produced to coincide with the exhibition Gululu dhuwala djalkiri: welcome to the Yolŋu foundations in the University of Sydney’s new Chau Chak Wing Museum that opened in November 2020. It […]

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V26 Issue 2

The Stranger Artist:

05/03/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Stranger-Artist

Life at the edge of Kimberley painting  2020, 278 pages, Quentin Sprague, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne.  Reviewed by Margaret Cassidy The rise of the Aboriginal art industry in the 1980s and 1990s is full of characters, myths and legends. For art lovers living in the coastal cities of Australia or around the world, great indigenous […]

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V26 Issue 1

The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist

10/09/2020 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Margaret Cassidy reviews ‘The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist’ – Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar, Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V25 Issue 3

War Art & Ritual: Shields from the Pacific

06/06/2020 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Edited by Bill Evans, Two Volumes, 518 pages, 140 Shields illustrated with additional images, eight essays and introduction. Published by William Nathaniel Evans, Woollahra, NSW, Australia, 2019. Reviewed by James Elmslie This lavish and beautifully produced book by Bill Evans is a rich resource for anyone with an interest in the shields of the Pacific […]

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V25 Issue 2

War Art & Ritual Shields from the Pacific

08/03/2020 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

2019, 2 vols boxed, 484 pages, Bill Evans (ed), private press Bill Evans, Sydney, 750 copies. Reviewed by Crispin Howarth This is an ambitious work, signalling the culmination of a lifetime’s passion upon one single form of material culture by Bill Evans, a Sydney based art dealer. Volume one has firm focus on shields from […]

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V25 Issue 1

Sepik Ramu Art

03/09/2019 By James Elmslie

Edited by Kevin Conru. 296 pages illustrating 170 objects from three private collections. Photographs by Hughes Dubois. Edition limited to 500 copies, €295. Conru Editions, released in May 2019. Review […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

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Sydney Oceanic Art Fair - SAOF 2021

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