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OAC Journal Book Reviews

War Art & Ritual: Shields from the Pacific

06/06/2020 Book Reviews, V25 Issue 2

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 …

War Art & Ritual Shields from the Pacific

08/03/2020 Book Reviews, V25 Issue 1

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 …

Sepik Ramu Art

03/09/2019 Book Reviews, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

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 …

Maori Children playing Knucklebones

Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand The Maori Portraits

09/05/2017 Book Reviews, V22 Issue 2

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 …

Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens Photographic Reference

09/05/2017 Book Reviews, V22 Issue 2

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. …

War trophies or curios?

01/11/2016 Book Reviews, V21 Issue 5

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 …

La-Sisi – Malangan Canoe

01/09/2016 Book Reviews, V21 Issue 4, Volume 21

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 …

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

01/11/2015 Book Reviews, V20 Issue 5

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 …

Bismarck Archipelago Art

01/02/2015 All Journal Articles, Book Reviews, V20 Issue 1, Volume 20

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 …

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