Kastom: Art of Vanuatu
- ISBN-10
- 0642334331
- ISBN-13
- 9780642334336
- Category
- Art / Sculpture & Installation
- Pages
- 118
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- National Gallery of Australia
- Author
- National Gallery of Australia
Description
Kastom: Arts of Vanuatu showcases an impressive array of traditional arts through a program of field collecting occurred on the islands of Ambrym and Malakula. Central to many traditional practices, better known as 'kastom, ' are masked performances and displays of sculpture including iconic upright slit drums. A selection of these intensely visual works created for ritual events realized in wood, over-modeled with clay, feathers, pig tusks, stone and other surprising mediums such as tree fern are discussed. These arts are remarkably unchanged to those from over a century ago, as kastom is an inseparable part of Ni-Vanuatu culture.
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