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The Arts of Kingship - Hawaiian Art and National Culture of the Kalakaua Era (Paperback)
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The Arts of Kingship - Hawaiian Art and National Culture of the Kalakaua Era (Paperback)
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The Arts of Kingship offers a sustained and detailed account of
Hawaiian public art and architecture during the reign of David
Kalākaua, the nativist and cosmopolitan ruler of the Hawaiian
Kingdom from 1874 to 1891. Stacy Kamehiro provides visual and
historical analysis of four key monuments--Kalākaua's coronation
and regalia, the King Kamehameha Statue, 'Iolani Palace, and the
Hawaiian National Museum--drawing them together in a common
historical, political, and cultural frame. Each articulated
Hawaiian national identities and navigated the turbulence of
colonialism in distinctive ways and has endured as a key cultural
symbol. These cultural projects were part of the monarchy's
concerted effort to promote a national culture in the face of
colonial pressures, internal political divisions, and declining
social conditions for Native Hawaiians, which, in combination,
posed serious threats to the survival of the nation. Kamehiro
interprets the images, spaces, and institutions as articulations of
the complex cultural entanglements and creative engagement with
international communities that occur with prolonged colonial
contact. Nineteenth-century Hawaiian sovereigns celebrated Native
tradition, history, and modernity by intertwining indigenous
conceptions of superior chiefly leadership with the apparati and
symbols of Asian, American, and European rule.
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