| Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Contributor(s): Skinner, Damian (Editor), Mahina-Tuai, Kolokesa U. (Editor), Chitham, Karl (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0994136277 ISBN-13: 9780994136275 Publisher: Te Papa Press OUR PRICE: $67.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Australian & Oceanian - Art | Museum Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 8.7" W x 10.6" (3.50 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). Paying attention to Pakeha (European New Zealanders), Maori, and island nations of the wider Moana, and old and new migrant makers and their works, this book is a history of craft understood as an idea that shifts and changes over time. At the heart of this book lie the relationships between Pakeha, Maori and wider Moana artistic practices that, at different times and for different reasons, have been described by the term craft. It tells the previously untold story of craft in Aotearoa New Zealand, so that the connections, as well as the differences and tensions, can be identified and explored. This book proposes a new idea of craft--one that acknowledges Pakeha, Maori and wider Moana histories of making, as well as diverse community perspectives towards objects and their uses and meanings. |