The Captive Eye. Ornamentation and Marquesan Tattos in the Work of Miguel Covarrubias
This essay examines the intellectual and ethnographic sources of Miguel Covarrubias regarding Marquesan ornaments and tattoos. In particular, I analyze his understanding of the design of ornaments in the Marquesan art and the development of their motifs, as well as Covarrubias’ position regarding la...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.atenea.esteticas.unam.mx:article/2721 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.analesiie.unam.mx/index.php/analesiie/article/view/2721 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ornamentation tattoos Marquesas Islands Polynesia Karl von den Steinen Gottfried Semper Herman Melville Alfred Gell Miguel Covarrubias Ornamentación tatuajes islas Marquesas Polinesia |
| Sumario: | This essay examines the intellectual and ethnographic sources of Miguel Covarrubias regarding Marquesan ornaments and tattoos. In particular, I analyze his understanding of the design of ornaments in the Marquesan art and the development of their motifs, as well as Covarrubias’ position regarding late nineteenth century anthropology and morphology, from which the so-called “biology of ornaments” derives. Through the study of a selection of Covarrubias' drawings and sketches of Marquesan art, it is possible to reconstruct the creative process behind the illustrations that he made for a 1935 special edition of Typee, Herman Melville’s first novel. |
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