By Kenneth Treister,Patricia Vargas Casanova,Claudio Cristino,Daniel Libeskind
This richly illustrated booklet of the heritage, tradition, and artwork of Easter Island is the 1st to envision intimately the island’s vernacular structure, usually overshadowed by means of its vast stone statues. It indicates the conjecturally reconstructed prehistoric pole homes; the ahu, the sculptures’ platform, as a remarkable expression of prehistoric megalithic structure; and the Easter Island Statue Project’s stock of the big moai sculptures.
This booklet is made attainable partly through a beneficiant contribution from moreover: a application of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Kenneth Treister, FAIA, architect, photographer, writer, and sculptor of the Holocaust Memorial in Miami seashore, Florida, has released in over fifty expert journals, written six books, and produced 4 documentaries on structure, together with secret of Easter Island (1990).
Patricia Vargas Casanova and Claudio Cristino, archaeologists, anthropologists, professors, and founders of the college of Chile’s Easter Island and Oceania reviews Centre created the island’s archaeology survey of over twenty thousand archaeological websites and have been provided the foreign Explorers membership prestigious Lowell Thomas Award (2011) for his or her life’s paintings on Easter Island.
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