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OAC Journal Book Reviews

Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand The Maori Portraits

09/05/2017 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Maori Children playing Knucklebones

Edited by Ngahiraka Mason and Zara Stanhope. Auckland University Press in association with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 20l6. Reviewed by Marina Garlick This splendid tome complements a fascinating […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, V22 Issue 2

Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens Photographic Reference

09/05/2017 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

By W. D. Webster. Review by Crispin Howarth William Downing Webster (1868 – 1913) began collecting and dealing in arms, armour and ethnographic material from the 1890s until his death. […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, V22 Issue 2

War trophies or curios?

01/11/2016 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

By Barry Craig, Ron Vanderwal and Christine Winter, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, 281 pp. Review by Peter McCabe “Me been talk with you now, now you give three good feller cheers […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, V21 Issue 5

La-Sisi – Malangan Canoe

01/09/2016 By James Elmslie

By Harold Gallasch and Neil McLeod. Melbourne Publishing Group, 2012. 60 pages with colour illustrations. Review by Jim Elmslie This lavishly illustrated book by OAS members, Harold Gallasch and Neil […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, V21 Issue 4, Volume 21

Myth & Magic: Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

01/11/2015 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Myth & Magic: Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, by Crispin Howarth Reviewed by Peter McCabe The National Gallery of Australia published this book in association with its […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, V20 Issue 5

Bismarck Archipelago Art

01/02/2015 By James Elmslie

Kevin Conru (editor) with photography by Hughes Dubois. Published by 5 Continents, Milan, Italy, 2014. 327 pages. Reviewed by Jim Elmslie. This vast and gorgeous book is a work of […]

Filed Under: All Journal Articles, Book Reviews, V20 Issue 1, Volume 20

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