Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art (Audiobook)

from Corvida

It was forward-looking of Nelson Rockefeller to see the aesthetic qualities of so-called primitive art in the 1940s and 50s.Art is the expression of emotion from all different sorts and there are many more means of expression than the classical form of art teaches. Nelson Rockefeller said that. I...

from etxgardener

I was in Junior High when the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller on an expedition for primitive art in New Guinea splashed all over the national media. One night at dinner my dad, who had been stationed there during World War II said, "I bet the headhunters ate him." We all laughed & my mom swa...

from Sullywriter

Fascinating investigation of the mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller who went missing in 1961 during an expedition in Dutch New Guinea. The official version is that he drowned at sea but the author reveals a plausible case that he was killed and consumed by a tribe of headhunting cann...

from Stbalbach

Great book on a topic I knew nothing about. In the end I didn't care what really happened to Michael Rockefeller but was entranced by the tribes of New Guinea and Hoffman's trip there. The book takes on literary qualities about the power of myth over materialism. The natives may be "dirt poor" an...

from akblanchard

In 1961, Michael Rockefeller, the youngest son of Nelson Rockefeller and an heir to the Rockefeller family fortune, was on a expedition to purchase "primitive" art from New Guinea's Asmat ethnic group when he went missing. After an extensive manhunt failed to locate him, his family had him declar...