Double vision : art histories and colonial histories in the Pacific / edited by Nicholas Thomas and Diane Losche.

Author(s): Losche, Diane | Thomas, Nicholas

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Main Title
Double vision : art histories and colonial histories in the Pacific
Author(s)
Thomas, Nicholas
Losche, Diane
Publisher
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Collation
xii, 289 p. : ill.
26 cm.
ISBN
9780521659987
Dewey Class
909.09823
Contents
Introduction / Nicholas Thomas -- Part I. Voyages: 1. Reimagining Juan Fernandez: probability, possibility and pretence in the South Seas / Jonathan Lamb -- 2. Images of monarchy: Kamehameha I and the art of Louis Choris / Harry Liebersohn -- 3. Art as ethnohistorical text: science, representation and indigenous presence in 18th and 19th century oceanic voyage / Bronwen Douglas -- Part II. Colonies: 4. The penitentiary as paradise / Michael Rosenthal -- 5. Under Saturn: melancholy and the colonial imagination / Ian McLean -- 6. Looking at Goldie: face to face with 'All 'e Same t'e Pakeha' / Leonard Bell -- Part III. Imaginings Beyond Colonialism: 7. Voices beyond the Pae / Robert Jahnke -- 8. The importance of birds: or, the relationship between art and anthropology reconsidered / Diane Losche -- Part IV. Counter-Colonial Imaginings: 9. Past present: the local art of colonial quotation / Joan Kerr -- 10. Visual essay. Australian icons: notes on perception / Gordon Bennett -- Clumsy utopians: an afterword / Peter Brunt.
Language
English
Subject
Art -- Pacific Area.
Pacific Area -- In art.
BRN
6005

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