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Picturing the Pacific : Joseph Banks and the shipboard artists of Cook and Flinders /
For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of this new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolours and drawings - a sensational view of a part of the world few would ever see. Today these works...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Adlard Coles,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Art and Illustration of Pacific Exploration
- Joseph Banks' experience of the South Seas, encouragement of voyager artists and role in the expedition publications
- Chapter Two: Exploration Networks and Pacific Research Centres
- Joseph Banks' family background, social and professional connections, London residences and interest in art for a practical purpose
- Chapter Three: Picturing the Pacific and Classical Antiquity
- Joseph Banks' membership of the Society of Dilettanti, his passion for neoclassicism and its impact on voyager art
- Chapter Four: First Australian Artwork
- Joseph Banks' role in Matthew Flinders' Investigator voyage and the creation and exhibition of the earliest landscape in Europe
- Chapter Five: Painting Around Australia
- Joseph Banks' role in the creation of the first series of oil paintings of Terra Australis
- Chapter Six: Promoting Australia in Pictures
- Joseph Banks' encouragement of the voyager artist William Westall and his involvement with free settlement in south Australia
- Conclusion
- Index of Artworks and Artists
- Acknowledgements
- eCopyright.