Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society
The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Product details:
- Publisher Lexington Books
- Date of Publication 29 January 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781793611383
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages182 pages
- Size 228x152 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 BW Illustrations, 33 BW Photos 692
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Long description:
The Kwoma, the subject of this book, are one of a number of peoples in the Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea who have created some of the most distinctive visual art in the Pacific. Through case studies of their painting, sculpture, architecture and ritual this book examines in detail how people in this society understand their art as a cultural phenomenon. This includes how they understand its origins in the spirit world, how they judge quality in art and how they understand artistic creativity. The book contrasts Kwoma beliefs with the radically different approach to art found in the modern West. The modern Western concept of art first emerged not in the eighteenth century in the Enlightenment, or even later, as anthropologists and art historians often assume, but several centuries earlier in the Renaissance. The book gives an account of radical changes that took place culturally in Europe between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries in the way human intellectual creativity was understood, and how this gave rise to a new concept of art, one that remains unchanged in the modern West today.
Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society: The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective is an exciting journey to the artistic world of the Kwoma in the Sepik River Region of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on thirty-five years of studying and communicating with the Kwoma, Ross Bowden introduces readers to lavishly painted Men?s Houses and the rituals held there. His research serves as a starting point for a detailed and fascinating cross-cultural exploration of abstract and non-abstract approaches to art, and has resulted in an outstanding work on the material expression of Sepik creativity set against the background of international art.
MoreTable of Contents:
Chapter 1. Sources of Creativity in Art
Chapter 2. The Supernatural Origins of Men?s Houses and Their Art
Chapter 3. The Supernatural Origins of Kwoma Ritual
Chapter 4. Cultural Implications of Kwoma Notions of Creativity in Art
Chapter 5. A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Chapter 6. Related Issues
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