1830

From the emergence of the chapel and the wharenui in the nineteenth century to the rejuvenation of carving by Apirana Ngata in the 1920s, Maori carving went through a rapid evolution from 1830 to 1930. Focusing on thirty meeting houses, Ngarino Ellis tells the story of Ngati Porou carving and a profound transformation in Maori art. Beginning around 1830, three previously dominant art traditions – waka taua (war canoes), pataka (decorated storehouses) and whare rangatira (chief’s houses) – declined and were replaced by whare karakia (churches), whare whakairo (decorated meeting houses) and wharekai (dining halls).

1830-1870 : ces quarante années préfigurent l’histoire future et dramatique de la colonie. Riche de multiples sources d’époque, cet ouvrage nous invite à assister à la conquête aux côtés des grands noms de l’armée française et de la résistance arabe, à voir l’Algérie changer au rythme de l’installation des colons et à partager les impressions de voyage des premiers touristes. Il ancre ainsi la guerre d’Algérie dans le temps long, celui d’un passé totalement méconnu.

"Following his magisterial studies of the press of the Old Regime and the Revolution, Jeremy Popkin turns to periodicals in Lyons in the 1830s. Focusing on how the press inflected political culture, he demonstrates that social classes realized their very existence through competing newspaper images…

by Jaime E. Rodriguez O. (Author)