Tiki. Marquesan Art and the Krusenstern expedition. Magazines where looking is not enough

where looking is not enough

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Tiki. Marquesan Art and the Krusenstern expedition. Magazines where looking is not enoughCreated across the six islands of a remote archipelago in eastern Polynesia, the art of the Marquesas is one of the world's most distinctive and remarkable art traditions. Though exhibited in major museums around the world, Marquesan art is nevertheless poorly understood, and the formation of collections still largely unresearched. This book documents and explores the most extensive early collection from the archipelago. In May, 1804, participants in