Found or Recovered?

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" Found or Recovered? "
Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081899
Doc. No	:	LA125528
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02201006‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
Title & Author	:	Found or Recovered? [Article]\ Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	22/1-2
Page No	:	114–134
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Eden
Descriptor	:	Hawai‘i
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	Joseph Dwight Strong
Descriptor	:	Jules Tavernier
Descriptor	:	Kalakaua
Descriptor	:	landscape painting
Descriptor	:	nineteenth century painting
Descriptor	:	paradise
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	tourism
Descriptor	:	travel narratives
Descriptor	:	volcanoes
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02201006‬