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Fabricating power with Balinese textiles
Anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson were pioneers in using visual anthropological techniques to study the aesthetics of bodily motion in Bali. What is less well known is that they also collected textiles, paintings, puppets, and carvings, most of which are collected at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. This book and its accompanying exhibit explore the Mead-Bateson textiles as forms of power.
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Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands
Danto referred explicitly to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in his discussion of how African objects in the art museum are viewed as \"vehicles of complete ideas,\" while those in the natural history museum are \"implements that help human beings to live out their material lives\" (as discussed by Alfred Gell in his article, \"Vogel's Net,\" in The Art of Anthropology, 1999, 194). At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, African art is displayed in reverent, timeless darkness, individual pieces on stark pedestals or in glass cases, spotlit from above. Divided by evocative panels of color, the central axis of the hall is formed around a large replica Easter Island head, spotlit dramatically as \"art,\" a concept that, in turn, following Mead's explicit intention, becomes the conceptual focus of the gallery (see Diane Losche's \"The Margaret Mead Peoples of the Pacific Hall at the American Museum of Natural History,\" a paper presented to the New York Academy of Sciences, 24 January 2005). Like the exhibition Te Maori, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984, Adorning the World speaks beyond the confines of the art museum and mobilizes historic artifacts in a contemporary valorization of Marquesan artistic and cultural heritage.
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