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- Island Art in Private Collections Honolulu Academy of Arts
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Item #: 0937426555 |
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Pub. Date: October 2001 |
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Honolulu Academy of the Arts |
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Collectors throughout the world have long been fascinated with Hawai’i’s beauty, exotic location, unique history and culture. With 500 color illustrations spanning the period of pre-Western contact Hawai’i to statehood, Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections features objects and artworks in American private collections.
Finding Paradise examines the material culture of traditional Hawai’i, objects from traditional Hawai’i, the period of Hawai’i’s monarchy, including personal possessions of the ali’i, as well as that of “territorial days.” It provides extensive coverage of indigenous art forms, post-contact paintings and painters, prints and printmakers, photographers and photography, and a valuable discussion of the one hundred essential books published about the islands before the end of the nineteenth century. There are also essays on surfing, the ‘ukulele, the promotion of Hawai’i as an island “paradise,” and the development of the Hawaiian quilt making tradition, as well as sculpture and decorative arts including ceramics, furniture and jewelry.
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The objects illustrated in Finding Paradise, many of them never seen by the public until now, have been selected from the holdings of numerous private collectors. They are discussed here in essays by authorities well-known in their fields including Bruce Erickson, Derek McDonnell, Watters O. Martin, Jr., DeSoto Brown, Jennifer Saville, Don R. Severson and Loretta G. Woodard. Roger G. Rose, a historian of Hawaiian culture, has also contributed an essay on collectors and collecting.
For those who attended the exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts (April-May, 2002), this is the long-awaited catalogue. However, approximately twice as many artworks and objects than were on view at the museum are featured in this important book. | |
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