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European vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850 : a study in the history of art and ideas / by Bernard Smith
Bib ID 86320
Format BookBook
Author
Smith, Bernard, 1916-2011
 
Description Oxford, Eng. : Clarendon Press, 1960 
xviii, 287 p., (60) p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 28 cm. 
Series

Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK7230

Hallstrom Pacific Collection.

Summary

Includes references to the depiction of Aboriginal people of the Sydney region and Tasmania; early representation and portrayal; colonisation and art history.

Notes

Includes index.

Library's NK7230 copy has original dust jacket; bears the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1960/3).

Bibliography: p.[258]-274.

Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK7230.

Subjects Art and science.  |  Art -- Australia.  |  Art -- Oceania.  |  Art, Colonial -- Australia.  |  Art, European.  |  Oceania in art.  |  Philosophy of nature.  |  History - Cultural.  |  Race relations - Representation - Art.  |  Settlement and contacts - Colonisation.  |  Settlement and contacts - Polynesians.  |  Race relations - Representation.  |  Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European.  |  Australia in art.  |  Oceania -- Pictorial works.  |  Tasmania (Tas)  |  Pacific Islands.  |  Easter Island.  |  Sydney map area (NSW SI56-05)  |  Port Jackson (Sydney SI56-05)

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