Man Who Cannot Die: Phantom Shields of the New Guinea Highlands

Langue : anglais

Edité par J.M. Fogel Media, Inc., San Francisco, 2021

ISBN 10 : 1733007814 (ISBN 13 : 9781733007818)

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Not shrink-wrapped, but new - this is a new and uncirculated copy, offered by permission of the publisher. FREE economy shipping worldwide. Published in English by Boylan & Phillips, Sydney and Toronto Edited by Jonathan Fogel, with contributions by Chris Boylan, Bruce Cree, Hubert Langmann, Kevin Patrick, and Jessica Lindsay Phillips 23 x 32 cm, 296 pages, fully illustrated in color Description: In the second half of the twentieth century, an artistic tradition arose in the Wahgi Valley of the highlands of Papua New Guinea of painting traditional war shields with the image of the comic book superhero The Phantom. This derived from some seemingly inexplicable intersection of the age-old bellicose traditions of one of the most culturally remote areas of the world and twentieth-century comic book illustration, if not pop art—a phenomenon that art historian N. F. Karlins has referred to as pop tribal. The frequent text in English or in Tok Pisin on other examples—man ino save dai (man who cannot die) or man bilong pait (man of war)—only adds to the multicultural depth. Though these appear to be curiously syncretic objects to the Western eye, to the people of the Wahgi Valley they held deep meaning to the martial power of moral rectitude and the guidance of ancestral spirits. A book published in February 2021 by art dealers Chris Boylan of Sydney, Australia, and Jessica Lindsay Phillips of Toronto, Canada, is an exhaustive study of this tradition. Titled "Man Who Cannot Die: Phantom Shields of the New Guinea Highlands," it features essays by a number of experts in the field, placing the shields within their historical, cultural, and cosmological contexts. A catalog section illustrates 105 examples from museum and private collections in North America, Europe, and the Antipodes, drawn from a research group of some 150 shields, which represent the majority of known examples. Boylan field collected many of the known examples, and his chapter discusses the circumstances of their history, use, and discovery. Phillips helped place a remarkable number of the shields in collections in the Toronto area and beyond, and she writes about the acquisition and placement of these shields in Western collections. Other contributors include Kevin Patrick, the leading scholar on The Phantom, who describes the dissemination of the character throughout the Pacific region; psychologist Hubert Langmann, who addresses the psychological implications of The Phantom’s depiction on the shields; and comic collector Bruce Cree, who provides context about the history of The Phantom in comics. Editor in chief of Tribal Art magazine, Jonathan Fogel, edited the book and provides a foreword. Research for the book resulted in the identification of a number of different artists, distinguishable by their styles. Some of their names are known—the late Kaipel Ka of Banz township, for example—while others can be referred to only by distinguishing stylistic characteristics—the Ocher Painter or the Confident Line Painter. The catalog section is arranged to show the relationships of the various shields within these stylistic groups.…

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Titre
Man Who Cannot Die: Phantom Shields of the New Guinea Highlands
Auteur
Boylan, Chris & Phillips, Jessica Lindsay
Éditeur
J.M. Fogel Media, Inc., San Francisco
Année de publication
2021
État de l'article
Comme neuf
Jaquette
Pas de jaquette
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Langue
anglais
Poids de l'article
2 014 grammes
Dimensions
24 centimètres de largeur par 32,5 centimètres de hauteur par 3 centimètres de profondeur

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