Author: Nicholas Thomas

When Tatau was first published in 2010, Mark Adams' renowned images documenting a great Polynesian art tradition were a revelation. It told the sto...

The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal,...

The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal,...

A timely re-examination of European engagements with indigenous art and the presence of indigenous art in the contemporary art world. The arts o...

An incisive, evocative history of the experience of empire in the Oceanic world This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the...

The dazzling colours and patterns of the art of the Pacific Islands have long entranced Western audiences, not least artists such as Gauguin and Pi...

Body art, practised across all world cultures and throughout history, is the most intimate art form, linking the self, the senses, and the social a...