Galleries of Maoriland Galleries of Maoriland

Galleries of Maoriland

Artists, Collectors and the Maori World, 1880–1910

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    • 249,00 kr

Publisher Description

Galleries of Maoriland introduces us to the many ways in which European colonists to New Zealand discovered, created, propagated, and romanticised the Maori world summed up in a popular nickname describing New Zealand; Maoriland. But Blackley shows that Maori were not merely passive victims: they too had a stake in this process of romanticisation. What, this book asks, were some of the Maori purposes that were served by curio displays, portrait collections, and the wider ethnological culture? Galleries of Maoriland looks at Maori prehistory in European art; the enthusiasm of settlers and Maori for portraiture and recreations of ancient life; the trade in Maori curios; and the international exhibition of this colonial culture. By illuminating New Zealand's artistic and ethnographic economy, this book provides a new understanding of our art and our culture.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2018
18 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
312
Pages
PUBLISHER
Auckland University Press
SIZE
92
MB