Double Vision Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific

Name: Double Vision Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific
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ISBN: 9780521659987

ISBN-10: 0521659981

ISBN-13: 9780521659987

Edition: 1999

Authors: Nicholas Thomas, Diane Losche

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Taking as its departure point Bernard Smith's classic study, European Vision and the South Pacific (1960), Double Vision explores the ambivalences of European perceptions of the Pacific and juxtaposes them with the indigenous visual cultures.

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/26/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Introduction




Voyages



Reimagining Juan Fernandez: Probability, possibility and pretence in the South Seas




Images of monarchy: Kamehameha I and the art of Louis Choris




Art as ethnohistorical text: Science, representation and indigenous presence in 18th and 19th century oceanic voyage




Colonies



The penitentiary as paradise




Under Saturn: Melancholy and the colonial imagination




Looking at Goldie: Face to face with 'All 'e Same t'e Pakeha'




Imaginings Beyond Colonialism



Voices beyond the Pae




The importance of birds: Or, the relationship between art and anthropology reconsidered




Counter-Colonial Imaginings



Past present: The local art of colonial quotation




Australian icons: Notes on perception



Afterword: Clumsy Utopians