ISBN |
0522845053 |
Name |
Smith, Bernard, 1916-2011. author. |
Title |
Imagining the Pacific : in the wake of the Cook voyages / Bernard Smith. |
Published |
Carlton : Melbourne University Press, 1992. |
Description |
xiii, 262 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm. |
Series |
Miegunyah Press series no. 10 |
Note |
Includes index and bibliographical references: pages 249-257. |
Summary |
Explores in more depth the issues first dealt with in European Vision and the South Pacific. Smith continues his examination of how European artists and scientists travelling to the Pacific during the time of Cook's voyages were stimulated to see the world in new and creative ways. In analysing intensely personal responses to a newly accessible environment, Smith shows how science, topography and travel had an impact on current pictorial genres, how an empirical naturalism affected long-standing classical conventions, and how difficult it was for the artists to portray people and places they knew little about. |
Subjects |
Cook, James, -- 1728-1779 |
Hodges, William, -- 1744-1797 |
Cook, James, -- 1728-1779 -- Travel |
Voyages and travels -- History |
Art -- Psychological aspects |
Art, Colonial |
Art, Modern -- 18th century |
Voyages around the world |
Travel in art |
Art -- Psychology |
Romanticism in art -- Great Britain -- 18th century |
Oceania in art. |
Art and science |
Voyages and travels in art |
Oceania -- In art |
Graphic arts -- Europe -- History -- 18th century |
Hawaii |
New Zealand (NZ) |
Australia |
Pacific Islands |
Series |
Miegunyah Press series ; |