China, Japan, and the Americas; medieval art in Europe; Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance art; Baroque art; art of the Pacific cultures; the rise of modern art; and the international Avant-Garde since 1945. An excellent reference work and beautiful edition for any visual artist....
The 1,600-kilometer stretch of the northwestern Pacific coast of North America (from southern Alaska to Washington State) provided an ideal environment for the growth of stable communities. Despite the northerly latitude, the climate is temperate. Natural resources were originally so rich that the i...
Melanesian culture, the beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples of the ethnogeographic group of Pacific Islands known as Melanesia. From northwest to southeast, the islands form an arc that begins with New Guinea (the western half of which is cal
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Exhibitions reveal and highlight multiple experiences of Pacific people residing in Australia, for whom Pacific cultures are partly mediated by the experiences of their relatives, popularised by museum collections and coloured by the gaze of non‐Pacific people. This article is built arou...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia Sydney Nicholas Mangan's first comprehensive survey, “A World Undone,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia will present two decades of Mangan’s sculptural practice into the politics of the Earth’s geology and material cultures. The show culminates ...
taken to its extreme in Tlingit war helmets. Some differences must have been due to those among the cultures in which they were created, but their place of origin cannot always be ascertained as they seem to have passed from one contiguous nation to another in the course of trade or warfa...
1. According to paragraph 1, which of the following was NOT one of the factors that made the northwestern Pacific coast perfect for the development of stable communities? A. temperate climate B. natural protection from raids C. abundant natural resources ...
1.The Pacific Northwest of North merica produced stable Native merican cultures. This was in great measure due to the abundance of resources and temperate climate, which figured prominently in the social and cultural fabric of the peoples. Fishing, hunting, and foraging producedamplemeans of susten...
My research was conducted during a fellowship at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, where I had access to an incredible amount of re-sources. Thus, my findings are based on a variety of sources, including multiple interviews, schol-arly articles, books and videos on the subject ...