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Title: |
Tuhituhi |
| Sub-title: |
William Hodges, Cook's Painter in the South Pacific |
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| By (author): |
Laurence Simmons |
| ISBN10-13: |
1877578177 : 9781877578175 |
| Illustrations: |
b/w & colour illus |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
254x177x27mm |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Weight: |
.894 Kg. |
| Published: |
Otago University Press (NZ) - January 2011 |
| List Price: |
22.50 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
History of art / art & design styles : Painting & paintings : Individual artists, art monographs : Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & : Australasian & Pacific history : Australia : South Pacific : c 1700 to c 1800 |
| This study of the art of William Hodges opens fresh theoretical perspectives on the representational problems raised by these early paintings produced in the South Pacific. Following Pacific Island historians of the 1960s, it argues that it is possible to read the texts and visual material produced from early South Seas encounters against the grain, as moments of cross-cultural exchange that challenge postcolonial complacencies. Tuhituhi is presented in sections that follow the geographical and chronological progression of Cook's voyage on the Resolution, for which William Hodges was hired as official artist, Cook's 'landskip painter'. Painters like Hodges found themselves staring again and again in disbelief at landscapes and seascapes that stretched 18th-century conventions of painting, such as the 'picturesque', the 'sublime' and the 'beautiful'. Each chapter of Tuhituhi focuses on the close reading of a significant painting of a South Pacific location by Hodges. The last chapter considers the important influence of Hodges' work on a series of paintings by the major twentieth-century New Zealand painter Colin McCahon. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Aotearoa; Bridging the wild: Tamatea / Dusky Sound 27-8 March 1773; A better description of it that I can give ...' Tamatea / Dusky Sound 12 April 1773; 'Terrific majesty in it' Takapourewa / Stephens Island 17 May 1773 Tahiti; 'Perpetual spirals of power and pleasure' Vaitepiha Bay 17-23 August 1773; 'Splendid benedictions of plenty' Matavai Bay 26-31 August 1773; 'One of the most magnificent sights' Huahine 17 April 1774 Antarctica; 'To go farther than any one had done before' Rapanui; 'Losing one's hat' Marquesas; 'As the nests of eagles' Vanuatu; 'A green branch in his hand' Kanaky; 'A picture for romance' Aotearoa; 'Naples yellow to start with'. |
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