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Tuhituhi : William Hodges, Cook's painter in the South Pacific / Laurence Simmons.

By:

Simmons, Laurence [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2011Description: 346 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1877578177
9781877578175

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.2 23

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	759.2 HOD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A510951B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-340) and index.

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.

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