Double vision : art histories and colonial histories in the Pacific / edited by Nicholas Thomas and Diane Losche ; assistant editor, Jennifer Newell.

Other author Thomas, Nicholas.
Other author Losche, Diane.
Other author Newell, Jennifer.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Descriptionxii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Art--Pacific Area.
Pacific Area--In art.
Pacific Area--History.
Pacific Area--Colonial influences.

Contents Re-imagining Juan Fernandez : probability, possibility and pretence in the South Seas / Jonathan Lamb -- Images of monarchy : Kamehameha I and the art of Louis Choris / Harry Liebersohn -- Art as ethno-historical text : science, representation and indigenous presence in eighteenth and nineteenth century oceanic voyage literature / Bronwen Douglas -- The penitentiary as paradise / Michael Rosenthal -- Under Saturn : melancholy and the colonial imagination / Ian McLean -- Looking at Goldie : face to face with 'All 'e same T'e Pakeha' / Leonard Bell -- Voices beyond the Pae / Robert Jahnke -- The importance of birds : or the relationship between art and anthropology reconsidered / Diane Losche -- Past present : the local art of colonial quotation / Joan Kerr -- Visual essay : Australian icons : notes on perception / Gordon Bennett -- Clumsy utopians : an afterword / Peter Brunt.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-277) and index.
LCCN 98046025
ISBN0521643414 (hardback)
ISBN0521659981 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks N7399.7 .D68 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold