European vision and the South Pacific / Bernard Smith
1985, 2nd Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #336089
ISBN: 0300028156
Physical description: xiii, 370 pages: illustrations (some color); 30 cm. Contents: Introduction: the European and the Pacific -- Cook's first voyage -- Cook's second voyage -- Cook's third voyage -- European reactions to the Pacific, 1788-1802 -- Settlement at Port Jackson, 1788-1800 -- Exploration in the South Seas and typical landscape, 1800-20 -- British reactions to Australian nature, 1800-21 -- Colonial intepretations of the Australian landscape, 1821-35 -- Art, science, and taste in Australia, 1835-50 -- The ignoble and the Romantic savage, 1820-50 -- The triumph of science, 1820-50. Summary: "Discusses the European interpretation of the Pacific in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It considers the work of artists attached to scientific voyages of discovery and exploration from the time of Cook to the time of Dumont d'Urville and elucidates the ways in which their work is related to the scientific interestes and prevailing ideas of their eras."--Book jacket. Subjects: Philosophy of nature. Art, Colonial Australia. Art, Colonial. Art, European. Art colonial Australia. Art, European. Oceania in art. Oceania Description and travel. Australasia Description and travel. Europe Civilization Oriental influences. Pacific area Discovery and exploration.
Price: €60.00