European Vision and the South Pacific Third Edition (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was arguably Australia's greatest art historian and one of the most important humanist thinkers internationally on ideas concerning cultural contact. His European Vision and the South Pacific, first published in 1960, showed how the ideas of the Enlightenment and the empirical structuring of scientific and geographical knowledge during the great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery affected notions of identity-both for Europeans and the Indigenous peoples with whom they came in contact. Not only did Smith's investigation of art, science and imperialism of this period explore the conditions of frontier contact, it opened up the dialogue on de-colonisation and allowed us 'to think beyond or after it'. He was undoubtedly a pioneer of post-colonialism and the book remains 'a lighthouse' in pacific studies. The republication of European Vision and the South Pacific is an essential part of the discourse reframing the interconnections and crossing of cultural boundaries between Europe and antipodean societies. This new edition of a significant Australian classic also coincides with the 250th anniversary of Cook's landing on the east coast of Australia, and complements new scholarship on territorialisation, colonialism and the politics of exchange between metropolitan centres and peripheries. A new introduction by Sheridan Palmer situates the book in a contemporary context.

General

Imprint:	The Miegunyah Press
Country of origin:	Australia
Release date:	October 2022
Authors:	Bernard Smith
Dimensions:	270 x 221 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	277
Edition:	3rd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-522-87689-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General
LSN:	0-522-87689-7
Barcode:	9780522876895

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