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Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of the Cook Voyages
 
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Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of the Cook Voyages [Hardcover]

Professor Bernard Smith (Author)

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0300050534 978-0300050530 August 26, 1992
A discussion of how the voyages of European artists and scientists to the Pacific during the time of Cook's voyages influenced art and literature of the period. It covers such topics as the impact of science, topography and travel on the genres of the academy and effects of empirical naturalism.

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Bernard Smith is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art and former director of the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney. He is the author of Place, Taste and Tradition: A Study of Australian Art since 1788, Australian Painting 1788-1990 (with Terry Smith) and The Death of the Artist as Hero. He is co-author of The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages and co-editor of The Art of the First Fleet and other Early Australian Drawings. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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