RES 43 Spring 2003: Islamic Arts - Couverture souple

McLaughlin, Castle; Burger, Hillel S.; Ronda, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0873658442 ISBN 13 : 9780873658447

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Islamic Arts

A propos du livre

Book Description

This guide to the museum’s 2,729 objects from the Philippines is a useful reference tool for researchers interested not only in the objects collected but also in the archival information relevant to the accessions and the collectors. Includes a breakdown of the items according to type; listings by collector and accession number; a cross-reference according to cultural affiliation; a list of donors; brief biographies of selected collectors; and a bibliography.

From Publishers Weekly

As the bicentennial years of the Lewis and Clark expedition approach we can expect to be inundated with any number of books, articles and television programs about the "Corps of Discovery," but it is doubtful than any will prove more insightful and thought provoking than McLaughlin's groundbreaking study. Associate curator of Native American Ethnography at the Peabody Museum, McLaughlin takes a multidisciplinary approach centering on the collection of objects acquired from native tribes during the expedition. Even if the book did nothing more than present and describe these fascinating objects—which it does with lush and painstaking thoroughness in text and in 195 illustrations (150 in color)—it would be of great appeal to neophytes and experts alike. Some of the objects depicted, like the extraordinary ceremonial raven bustles, are as impressive in themselves as anything our continent has produced. But through them McLaughlin, along with some guest essayists, is able to describe both the voyage and its milieu in fresh and surprising ways. The America from which Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark was a democracy in its fragile infancy; the tribes, McLaughlin illustrates, including the Mandan and Sioux, were not yet conquered peoples but vital actors in a thriving and interdependent cultural economy. In the complex interaction between the expedition and the peoples they met, the exchange of objects could have numerous meanings, which are explored here with great nuance and subtlety; their eventual status as "museum" objects is also discussed. At various points, this narrative is interleaved with panel pages in which material aspects such as cedar bark and glass beads are explored more fully, and also, most usefully, contemporary native artisans not only discuss their crafts but react to the implications of McLaughlin's ideas. Readers will want to do the same.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0873658442
• ISBN 13: 9780873658447
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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