Tuhituhi : William Hodges, Cook's painter in the South Pacific /
Simmons, Laurence,
Tuhituhi : William Hodges, Cook's painter in the South Pacific / Laurence Simmons. - 346 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-340) and index.
Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Tahiti/Society Islands -- Antarctica latitude 17o10'S, longitude 106o54'W -- Rapa Nui (Te Pito o te Henua)/Easter Island -- Te Fenua 'enata/Marquesas Islands -- Vanuata/New Hebridies -- Kanaky/New Caledonia -- Aotearoa/ew Zealand.
Tuhituhi follows the geographical and chronological progress of Cook's voyage on the Resolution, for which William Hodges was hired as official artist, a landscape painter. In the Pacific, 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 this book focuses on the close reading of a significant painting by Hodges of a South Pacific location and opens fresh theoretical perspectives on the representational problems raised by these early Pacific works. The final chapter considers the important influence of Hodges work on a series of paintings by the major twentieth-century New Zealand painter Colin McCahon.--Cover.
1877578177 9781877578175
Hodges, William, 1744-1797 --Criticism and interpretation.
Hodges, William, 1744-1797 --Travel--Oceania.
McCahon, Colin, 1919-1987 --Criticism and interpretation.
Oceania--In art.
Oceania--Description and travel.
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Tuhituhi : William Hodges, Cook's painter in the South Pacific / Laurence Simmons. - 346 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-340) and index.
Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Tahiti/Society Islands -- Antarctica latitude 17o10'S, longitude 106o54'W -- Rapa Nui (Te Pito o te Henua)/Easter Island -- Te Fenua 'enata/Marquesas Islands -- Vanuata/New Hebridies -- Kanaky/New Caledonia -- Aotearoa/ew Zealand.
Tuhituhi follows the geographical and chronological progress of Cook's voyage on the Resolution, for which William Hodges was hired as official artist, a landscape painter. In the Pacific, 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 this book focuses on the close reading of a significant painting by Hodges of a South Pacific location and opens fresh theoretical perspectives on the representational problems raised by these early Pacific works. The final chapter considers the important influence of Hodges work on a series of paintings by the major twentieth-century New Zealand painter Colin McCahon.--Cover.
1877578177 9781877578175
Hodges, William, 1744-1797 --Criticism and interpretation.
Hodges, William, 1744-1797 --Travel--Oceania.
McCahon, Colin, 1919-1987 --Criticism and interpretation.
Oceania--In art.
Oceania--Description and travel.
759.2