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Oceania

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Basics to get you started

Polynesia, an introduction
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Melanesia, an introduction
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What is the impact and legacy of Cook’s voyages?
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Ah Xian artist interview
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Artist Dale Harding—”Environment is Part of Who You Are”
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Artist Richard Bell—”My Art is an Act of Protest”
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Paleolithic art, an introduction
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The Neolithic revolution
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Contemporary art, an introduction
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Modern art and reality
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Expression and modern art
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A Global Middle Ages through the Pages of Decorated Books
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What can be done to protect cultural heritage?
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Art Appreciation: Religion—comparisons and connections
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Guagua’ (woven basket) and Chamoru weaving (mamfok)
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Works of Art

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Gazellah Bruder, Goddess I Am and Feeding the Gods of Melanesia

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2019

2021

Ahilapalapa Rands, Lift Off

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2018

Pōhaku kuʻi ʻai, otherwise known as the poi pounder

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c. 1800–today

Ola Ka Wai, Ola Ka Honua: sovereign flows on and off the wall

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2011

Fatu Feuʻu, Faʻaola Mo Taeao Conserve for Tomorrow

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1990

Jaki-ed and weaving in the Marshall Islands

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19th century–today

Kapulani Landgraf, ʻAuʻa

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2019

Nguzunguzu (canoe prow figurehead)

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late 19th–early 20th century

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Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, 1888, oil on canvas, 72.2 x 91 cm (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh)

Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, 1888, oil on canvas, 72.2 x 91 cm (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh)

Fanipdas

Terepos

Jiem

Jewer

Bifarq

Ajowmien

Thomas J. Baker

Richard Bell

Ashken Binat

Gazellah Bruder

William Cogswell

Fatu Feuʻu

Paul Gauguin

Dale Harding

John “Prime” Hina

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

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Periods, Cultures, Styles

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Wallisian and Futunan

to today

Anmatyerr

Polynesian

to today

Melanesian

Hawaiian

to today

Māori

to today

Wosera

Samoan

to today

Fijian

to today

Micronesian

Palauan

New Ireland

Torres Strait Islander

Cook Islander

to today

I-Kiribati

Rapa Nui

Lapita

c. 1600–500 B.C.E.

Vanuatu

Australian Aboriginal

Asmat

prehistoric–today

Prehistoric

before 2000 B.C.E.

Paleolithic

before 10,000 B.C.E.

Neolithic

c. 10,000–2000 B.C.E.

Postcolonial

1776–the present

Modernisms

c. 1900–1980

International Style

c. 1920–1980

Late Modernism/Postmodernism

1962–today

Contemporary

1980–today

Chamoru

to today

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Curated Guides to Oceania

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Framing Islamic art

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Re-Mapping Land Art: Earthworks, Borderlands, Ecology

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Early Modern Art Syllabus (c. 1400–1800)

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