TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simmons,Laurence
TI  - Tuhituhi: William Hodges, Cook's painter in the South Pacific 
SN  - 1877578177
U1  - 759.2 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Dunedin, N.Z.
PB  - Otago University Press
KW  - Hodges, William,
KW  - McCahon, Colin,
KW  - Oceania
KW  - In art
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -