Pedagogical sights/sites: producing colonialism and practicing art in the Pacific.(includes related articles)(Hawai'i)
From: Art Journal
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Date: 9/22/1998
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Author: Kosasa, Karen K.
A study of Hawaiian art pedagogy reveals that Western societies and the indigenous people of Hawai'i apply different meanings to the concepts of space and blankness. Blank/whiteness represents a conglomeration of colonial cultures handed down by an uncritical teaching of a Western-oriented art curriculum. Native Hawaiian artist Herman Pi'ikea Clark's successful exhibit, 'Ho'okumu Hou,' demonstrated racial and cultural repression of Hawaiian artists. After this event, the University of Hawai'i ...
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