Art Of Oceania, Africa, And The Americas From The Museum Of Primitive Art
by Art of Oceania /
2017 / English / PDF
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The works in this exhibition come from many places and differ in many ways: in their materials and techniques, in the circumstances of their production and use, in their social and symbolic roles, in their craftsmanship, size, appearance, and style. In fact, their differencesgeographical, temporal, functional, and estheticso much outweigh their similarities, that if one looks at them individually, one doubtless questions how and why they are related.
They all belong, it is true, to one museum, and represent the character and quality of its collections. That they come from The Museum of Primitive Art gives them one kind of coherence, but it does not explain how they should have been brought together in a museum, so to speak, of their own, and given a single label, nor why the arts of Oceania and Africa (and in part those of the Americas) are only now, for the first time, being given a major showing in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Book depicting the Art on Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 10 to August 17, 1969.
