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Tapa: Pacific histories in cloth is the most significant contribution of knowledge about tapa in a generation, offering new views on its practices, meanings and histories across art, dress, culture and curation. This multi-authored book draws upon the vast collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, illustrating over two hundred tapa from 18 Pacific island nations, from Taiwan to Hawai'i, to explore its lineages.
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Blurb: Tapa:
Pacific histories in cloth is the most significant contribution of knowledge
about tapa in a generation, offering new views on its practices, meanings and
histories across art, dress, culture and curation. This multi-authored book
draws upon the vast collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa,
illustrating over two hundred tapa from 18 Pacific island nations, from Taiwan
to Hawai'i, to explore its lineages.
For
centuries, people across Pacific communities have created beautiful and
functional tapa cloth from tropical tree bark. Understood by many names, its
uses for mats, clothing, ceremony and art are well known and have been further
highlighted by the recent revitalisation of customary techniques.
Tapa
reveals the many creative processes that shape how tapa mediates these
Indigenous histories, both in and out of the museum. Placing artists and makers
at its centre, the authors and contributors explore the processes and cultural
politics of contemporary tapa making alongside experiences of migration, art,
dress, conservation and curatorship that reflect the complex social and
cultural lives of tapa cloth.
ISBN: 9780995138483
Author: TONGA, NINA
Available Stock: 1
Selling Price: 95.0
Title: Tapa Pacific Histories in Cloth
| Dimensions | 268 × 218 mm |
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