Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of the Cook Voyages
- ISBN-10
- 0300050534
- ISBN-13
- 9780300050530
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- Bernard Smith
Description
Smith's scrutiny of the pictorial and documentary evidence results in some surprising findings. He argues that the obligation science placed on art to provide information was a factor in the triumph of Impressionism during the late nineteenth century. He points out, for example, that William Hodges, Cook's official artist on his second voyage to the Pacific, was one of the first artists to adopt plein-air methods of painting. Describing the impact of the Pacific world on burgeoning English Romanticism, Smith tells of the crucial influence of Cook's astronomer, William Wales, on S.T. Coleridge's imaginative development. He describes how John Webber's apparently documentary art was fashioned to suit political concerns. He examines critically the relevance of Edward Said's Orientalism for our understanding of European perceptions of the Pacific
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