How Marquesan art became a puzzle From: International Herald Tribune | Date: May 28, 2005| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Souren Melikian
International Herald Tribune
05-28-2005
No one has asked what drove 19th-century Westerners to scrutinize distant cultures, gather their artifacts destined for rituals that are no longer understood, and ensconce them in museum displays irrelevant to their original purpose. The exhibition of artifacts from the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, put together at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Eric Kjellgren and Carol Ivory, is remarkable in its understated elegance. This show, on view until Jan. 15, is a masterpiece of exhibition design, devised by a staff designer, ...

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