Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island

Kjellgren, Eric, with contributions by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and Adrienne L. Kaeppler

2001

64 pages

85 illustrations

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Table of contents

About the authors

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Directors Foreword
Philippe de Montebello

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Remote Possibilities
Eric Kjellgren

Changing Faces: Rapa Nui Statues in the Social Landscape
Jo Anne Van Tilburg

Rapa Nui Art and Aesthetics
Adrienne L. Kaeppler

Catalogue

Selected Bibliography

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Une semaine de bonté ou Les septs éléments capitaux, Max Ernst French, born Germany, photomechanical reproduction of collages — Une semaine de bonté ou Les septs éléments capitaux
Max Ernst
1934

Female Figure (Moai Papa), Wood, glass, paint, resin(?), Rapa Nui people — Female Figure (Moai Papa)
19th century

Male Figure (Moai Tangata), Wood, obsidian, bone, Rapa Nui people — Male Figure (Moai Tangata)
early 19th century

"Lizardman" Figure (Moko), Wood, obsidian, bone, Rapa Nui people — "Lizardman" Figure (Moko)
19th century

Gorget (Rei Miro), Wood, Rapa Nui people — Gorget (Rei Miro)
19th century

Dance Paddle (Rapa), Wood, Rapa Nui people — Dance Paddle (Rapa)
early 19th century

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Kjellgren, Eric, JoAnne Van Tilburg, and Adrienne L. Kaeppler. 2001. Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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