The Painted King: Art, Activism, and Authenticity in Hawai'i Tapa dura - 2011

Hardback. New. The famous statue of Kamehameha I in downtown Honolulu is one of the state's most popular landmarks. Many tourists and residents however, are unaware that the statue is a replica; the original, cast in Paris in the 1880s and the first statue in the Islands, stands before the old courthouse in rural Kapa`au, North Kohala, the legendary birthplace of Kamehameha I. In 1996 conservator Glenn Wharton was sent by public arts administrators to assess the statue's condition, and what he found startled him: A larger-than-life brass figure painted over in brown, black, and yellow with """"white toenails and fingernails and penetrating black eyes with small white brush strokes for highlights. . . . It looked more like a piece of folk art than a nineteenth-century heroic monument."""" The Painted King is Wharton's account of his efforts to conserve the Kohala Kamehameha statue, but it is also the story of his… Leer más

Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2011. 1st printing; dj in mylar; black c w/gilt spine titles; 203 clean, unmarked pages. Signed By Author. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Color.

Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2011. Hardcover. New. 203 pages. 10.00x7.25x0.75 inches.

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