Basketry : making human nature

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Name/Title

Basketry : making human nature

Entry/Object ID

NK3649.5.B375

Description

This book brings together traditional and contemporary basketry from Western Amazonia, North America, Oceania, Africa, Japan, South-East Asia and Europe. The exhibition reveals the extraordinary uses of basketry technology and asks us to consider its place in human culture.

Lexicon

Search Terms

basketwork, basketwork--exhibitions

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Exhibition catalog

Book Details

Author

Joshua A. Bell, Sandy Heslop

Publisher

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Place Published

City

Norwich, UK

Date Published

2011

Call No.

NK3649.5.B375

ISBN

946009600, 9780946009602

LCCN

2010671366

Notes

Length: 66

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

Basketry: making human nature / Sandy Heslop -- Mario Merx's cones / Victoria Mitchell -- A basket made in glass: a polychrome mould-pressed bowl of the 1st century BC / Joanne Clarke -- A whirlwind of straw: the piranha Atujuwa mask from Amazonia / Aristoteles Barcelos Neto -- Protecting chiefs and ancestors: basketry in Polynesia / Steven Hooper -- Basketry bodyguards from Central Africa / John Mack -- Transforming basketry traditions in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea / Joshua A. Bell -- Basketmaking in East Anglia / Mary Butcher -- Commissioned artist: Peter Dibble -- Commissioned artist: Laura Ellen Bacon -- Commissioned artist: Ueno Masao -- Commissioned artist: Mary Butcher.