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Imagining the Pacific : in the wake of the Cook voyages / Bernard Smith.

Imagining the Pacific : in the wake of the Cook voyages / Bernard Smith.
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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 ;
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