Nicholas Thomas / Diane Losche (eds.)

Double Vision

Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific
Herausgeber: Losche, Diane; Thomas, Nicholas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ambivalences of European perceptions of the Pacific and juxtaposes them with the indigenous visual cultures that challenge western assumptions about art and representation. It yields a fresh understanding of history, colonialism and culture in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780521659987
• ISBN-10: 0521659981
• Artikelnr.: 21769973

Inhaltsangabe

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. Australian icons: notes on perception Gordon Bennett; Afterword: clumsy
Utopians Peter Brunt.