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    Eric Kjellgren

    Eric Kjellgren is a leading scholar of the arts of Oceania. Formerly the curator of Oceanic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, director of the American Museum of Asmat Art (AMAA), and a member of the Art History faculty at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, he has worked extensively with contemporary First Nations Australian artists and conducted research in Vanuatu. Dr. Kjellgren has written more than 40 articles and 2 books on the arts of Oceania (How To Read Oceanic Art and Oceania: Art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art); curated numerous exhibitions at the Metropolitan and the AMAA; and had curatorial responsibility for the 2007 redesign and reinstallation of the Metropolitan’s permanent galleries for Oceanic Art.

    Dr. Kjellgren wrote chapters on the arts of Oceania from the earliest period to the present, including the section on Oceanic art in Chapter 7.

    Eric Kjellgren

    Eric Kjellgren is a leading scholar of the arts of Oceania. Formerly the curator of Oceanic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, director of the American Museum of Asmat Art (AMAA), and a member of the Art History faculty at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, he has worked extensively with contemporary First Nations Australian artists and conducted research in Vanuatu. Dr. Kjellgren has written more than 40 articles and 2 books on the arts of Oceania (How To Read Oceanic Art and Oceania: Art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art); curated numerous exhibitions at the Metropolitan and the AMAA; and had curatorial responsibility for the 2007 redesign and reinstallation of the Metropolitan’s permanent galleries for Oceanic Art.

    Dr. Kjellgren wrote chapters on the arts of Oceania from the earliest period to the present, including the section on Oceanic art in Chapter 7.

    Books by Eric Kjellgren

    • The History of Art: A Global View

      Monica Blackmun Visonà, Cynthia Colburn, Ömür Harmansah, Deborah Hutton, Eric Kjellgren, Rex Koontz, De-nin D. Lee, Henry Luttikhuizen, Allison Lee Palmer, Jean Robertson, Stacey Sloboda

      First Edition, Paperback, 2022

    • The History of Art: A Global View: Prehistory to 1500

      Jean Robertson, Deborah Hutton, Cynthia Colburn, Ömür Harmansah, Eric Kjellgren, Rex Koontz, De-nin D. Lee, Henry Luttikhuizen, Allison Lee Palmer, Stacey Sloboda, Monica Blackmun Visonà

      Second Edition, Volume 1, Paperback, 2026

      A flexible, global approach that helps students draw cross-cultural connections and see the big picture

    • The History of Art: A Global View: 1300 to the Present

      Jean Robertson, Deborah Hutton, Cynthia Colburn, Ömür Harmansah, Eric Kjellgren, Rex Koontz, De-nin D. Lee, Henry Luttikhuizen, Allison Lee Palmer, Stacey Sloboda, Monica Blackmun Visonà

      Second Edition, Volume 2, Paperback, 2026

      A flexible, global approach that helps students draw cross-cultural connections and see the big picture

    • The Concise History of Art: A Global View: Prehistory to the Present

      Jean Robertson, Deborah Hutton, Cynthia Colburn, Ömür Harmansah, Eric Kjellgren, Rex Koontz, De-nin D. Lee, Henry Luttikhuizen, Allison Lee Palmer, Stacey Sloboda, Monica Blackmun Visonà

      Concise Second Edition, Paperback, 2026

      A flexible, concise global approach helps students draw cross-cultural connections and see the big picture

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