KAEPPLER (Adrienne L.). Polynesia. The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art. Honolulu, Univ. of Hawai'i Press, 2010, 4°, XXXVI-410 p., plusieurs centaines d'ill. coul., rel. édit., jaq. Adrienne Kaeppler, the world-renowned...
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expert on the subject, and the greatest specialist on the collecting done in the Pacific by the early voyagers, especially Captain Cook, has brought her immense scholarship and taste to bear on this remarkable study of a remarkable collection. The arts of Polynesia offer a richly diverse and relatively little known body of work, covering an enormous geographical area yet linked by shared artistic conventions. The collection of Mark and Carolyn Blackburn, one of the greatest private collections of Polynesian art, encompasses this broad field of artistic endeavour. It features both ceremonial and functional traditional forms in diverse media, from delicate ivory ornaments and decorated barkcloth to formidable weaponry and imposing sculpture in coral, wood, and stone.The geographic spread of the collection is vast, covering the Pacific Ocean from Hawai'i to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to Aotearoa (New Zealand), and the many islands in between. Many of the pieces have noteworthy historical antecedents, such as items associated with the eighteenth-century voyages of Captain Cook.
