European Vision and the South Pacific
- ISBN-10
- 0300028156
- ISBN-13
- 9780300028157
- Category
- Art, Colonial
- Pages
- 370
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Authors
- Bernard Smith, Bernard William Smith
Description
"Discusses the European interpretation of the Pacific in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It considers the work of artists attached to scientific voyages of discovery and exploration from the time of Cook to the time of Dumont d'Urville and elucidates the ways in which their work is related to the scientific interestes and prevailing ideas of their eras."--Book jacket.
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