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Author Smith, Bernard, 1916-2011, author

Title Imagining the Pacific : in the wake of the Cook voyages / Bernard Smith
Published Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1992
Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1992

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Description xiii, 262 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm
regular print
Series Miegunyah Press series ; no. 10
Miegunyah Press series ; no. 10
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
Analysis Cultural identity
Description and travel
Europe
Painting
South Pacific Region
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes index and bibliographical references: pages 249-257
Subject Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Travel.
Cook, James, 1728-1779.
Hodges, William, 1744-1797.
Art and science.
Art -- Psychological aspects.
Art -- Psychology.
Art, Colonial.
Art, Modern -- 18th century.
Graphic arts -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Sea in art.
Romanticism in art -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
Travel in art.
Voyages and travels -- History.
Voyages around the world.
SUBJECT Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- In art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011411
Oceania -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116418
Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- In art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011412
Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- In art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011412
Genre/Form Art.
LC no. 03007462
ISBN 0522845053