Image from Coce

The pressure of sunlight falling / Fiona Pardington ; edited by Kriselle Baker and Elizabeth Rankin.

By:

Pardington, Fiona, 1961-

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2011Description: 160 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map, ports ; 35 cmISBN:

9781877578090

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

731.74 22

Summary: " An ambitious journey of the nineteenth century was the third voyage of the French explorer Dumont d'Urville, from 1837-1840. It was just before the invention of photography, when phrenology, the study of people's skulls, was the latest thing. D'Urville chose to take on the voyage an eminent phrenologist, Pierre-Marie Dumoutier, to preserve likenesses of people by making life casts. Fiona Pardington first learned of the life casts in 2007, which initiated a four-year project. It took her from Auckland to Musée de l'Homme in Paris, as she researched and photographed some of more than fifty cast of Māori, Pacific and European heads, including casts of her Ngāi Tahu ancestors"--Cover.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	731.74 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A492435B

Browsing City Campus shelves, Shelving location: City Campus Main Collection Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	731.55 BAN Sound sculpture : intersections in sound and sculpture in Australian artworks /	731.55 BAN Accompanying part (Disc) Sound sculpture : intersections in sound and sculpture in Australian artworks /	731.55 BOH Making simple constructions /	731.74 PAR The pressure of sunlight falling / Fiona Pardington ; edited by Kriselle Baker and Elizabeth Rankin.	731.76 PAN Pantheons : transformations of a monumental idea /	731.76094309033 CRA The silent rhetoric of the body : a history of monumental sculpture and commemorative art in England, 1720-1770 /	731.82 EPH Ephemeral bodies : wax sculpture and the human figure /	Next

Published in association with the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Two Rooms Gallery ; and coincides with the opening of a major travelling exhibition.

Includes essays by leading scholars in Pacific history, art and photography, on subjects as diverse as phrenology and cast-making, the voyage, and the identity of Maori casts.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-157).

" An ambitious journey of the nineteenth century was the third voyage of the French explorer Dumont d'Urville, from 1837-1840. It was just before the invention of photography, when phrenology, the study of people's skulls, was the latest thing. D'Urville chose to take on the voyage an eminent phrenologist, Pierre-Marie Dumoutier, to preserve likenesses of people by making life casts. Fiona Pardington first learned of the life casts in 2007, which initiated a four-year project. It took her from Auckland to Musée de l'Homme in Paris, as she researched and photographed some of more than fifty cast of Māori, Pacific and European heads, including casts of her Ngāi Tahu ancestors"--Cover.

In English, with some Māori.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.