عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA125528
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Found or Recovered?
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
In the 1880s, American artists Charles Furneaux, Joseph D. Strong, and Jules Tavernier-who later became known as the "Volcano School"-traveled to the Kingdom of Hawai'i and produced dozens of landscapes ranging from otherworldly scenes of volcanoes to vistas of untouched, pristine beaches. While white, upper-class landowners in Hawai'i served as the primary patrons of such paintings, the reigning monarch, King David Kalākaua, also commissioned his own sweeping landscapes from the same artists. This article focuses on the two competing narratives of paradise at work in both these paintings and writings about the Hawaiian Islands in the 1880s. "Paradise" could invoke a Romantic position, one that celebrated the landscape's wildness and equated nature in its pure state with the lost Garden of Eden. On the other hand, Kalākaua's commissions reflect what environmental historian Carolyn Merchant calls the Recovery Narrative: a story of humans reversing the effects of the biblical Fall by subjugating desolate and distant wilds and transforming them into fruitful lands. This article argues that Kalākaua's presentation of "paradise" was part of a multi-pronged but ultimately failed strategy to resist American imperialism and present the Kingdom of Hawai'i to the West as a prosperous, profitable nation.
SET
Date of Publication
2018
Physical description
114-134
Title
Religion and the Arts
Volume Number
22/1-2
International Standard Serial Number
1568-5292
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Art History
Subject Term
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
Subject Term
Eden
Subject Term
Hawai'i
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History
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Joseph Dwight Strong
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Jules Tavernier
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Kalakaua
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landscape painting
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nineteenth century painting
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paradise
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Religious Studies
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tourism
Subject Term
travel narratives
Subject Term
volcanoes
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/15685292-02201006
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Article]
275578
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