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V26 Issue 2

Diverse Studies of Individual Oceanic Art Objects

31/05/2021 Cover Story, V26 Issue 2

Oceanic art can be studied from a number of angles. This art can be approached from an anthropological or ethnographic aspect and from the perspective of art history or visual …

Travels of the Lily: from Lake Sentani to the National Gallery

31/05/2021 Objects, V26 Issue 2

by Crispin Howarth Main image caption: Le Lys as currently displayed in the exhibition ‘Emotional Bodies’ next to works by artists including Miro, Epstein and Modigliani. Image courtesy National Gallery of …

Solomon Islands carved coconut used in the practice of teeth blackening

31/05/2021 Research, V26 Issue 2

Clémentine Débrosse In 1568, Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira was the first European to visit the Archipelago now known as the Solomon Islands. At the time, Mendaña y Neira was …

Djalkiri-Yolŋu art, collaborations and collections

31/05/2021 Book Reviews, V26 Issue 2

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 …

Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved & Twined

31/05/2021 Exhibitions, V26 Issue 2

Main image caption: Yibiyung Roma Winar, Noongar Language, Mountain Devil, c.1998. Perth, Western Australia. Emu Egg, 9.5 x 15 x 8.5 cm. Berndt Museum of Anthropology Collection [1998/0058] Presented by the Berndt …

Harry Beran | Tributes received by the OAS

31/05/2021 In Memoriam, V26 Issue 2

Main image caption: Dr Harry Beran interviews residents of Egum Islet in Milne Bay in October 2017. Photograph: Luke Wong, ABC. Reproduced with permission of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Scholar, author …

War Art and Ritual: Visit to Bill Evans’s Shield Collection

31/05/2021 Collections, V26 Issue 2

Reviewed by Bill Rathmell Whenever I go to an art gallery or museum show, I buy the catalogue (or I don’t) on the basis of the “wow” factor of the …

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