OCEANIA AT THE TROPENMUSEUM.
by Duuren, David van. Et al
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216 pp.; 205 illus., index, biblio.. Series: Collections of the Tropenmuseum. Amsterdam, 2011. Hbk. This is the second volume of a series of ten books that discuss the collections of the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. The book elucidate the often hidden backgrounds of a museum collection, discussing objects within their original context, social histories and their contemporary meaning. 'Oceania at the Tropenmuseum' is not in the first place a book on art from Oceania, but rather a treatise on the coming into existence and growth of a well-known Oceanic collection, which started at the beginning of the 20th century with the bringing together of the collections of the Colonial Museum in the Dutch provincial town of Haarlem and the ethnographic collection of Artis, the Amsterdam Zoo. The book contains 8 essays by David van Duuren, Steven Vink, Daan van Dartel, Hanneke Hollander and Denise Frank. KEYWORDS: 020 Oceania/Australia
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- OCEANIA AT THE TROPENMUSEUM.
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- Duuren, David van. Et al
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- Used
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