The Two Worlds of Omai
Author : Auckland City Art Gallery
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Art, Polynesian
ISBN :
Omai
Author : Richard Michael Connaughton
Publisher : Timewell Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781857252057
Book Description
A vivid account of the tragedy of England's first black celebrity, the story of the Tahitian prince brought to England by Captain Cook's companion.
Omai
Author : Eric H. McCormick
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1775581330
Book Description
Omai was the first Polynesian to visit Britain. Picked up by one of Cook's captains, he was carried to England where he became a human curiosity and the lion of fashionable London. He was presented at Court, examined by scientists and painted by a series of artists. He learned to skate and play chess, and developed a liking for the theatre. At the end of two years he was taken back to the Pacific by Cook who left him at the island of Huahine. In this landmark book, McCormick creates a portrait of Omai and a picture of his two worlds, the Polynesian and the European.
Two Worlds
Author : Anne Salmond
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824817657
Book Description
Two Worlds is a penetrating rethinking of that view. Drawing on local tribal knowledge as well as European accounts, Anne Salmond shows those first meetings in a new light. Both Maori and European protagonists were active, all fully human, following their own practical, political and mythological agendas, 'quite unlike those of their modern-day descendants in many ways'. The result is a work of trail-blazing significance in which many popular misconceptions and bigotries to do with common perceptions of traditional Maori society are revealed. It also opens up new possibilities in the international study of European exploration and 'discovery'.
Cook & Omai
Author : Michelle Hetherington
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0642107319
Book Description
Cook & Omai: The Cult of the South Seas draws on the Library's collections and the documentary record to explore a fascinating chapter in the history of the Pacific, and European concerns about the nature of humankind and the world as they saw it. The catalogue and exhibition provide insight into the legacy of Omai, caught, as he was, between two worlds.
A New Imperial History
Author : Kathleen Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521007962
Book Description
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Fables of Modernity
Author : Laura Brown
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801437564
Book Description
The metropolis : the fable of the city sewer -- Imperial fate : the fable of torrents and oceans -- Finance : the fable of lady credit -- Capitalism : fables of a new world -- Spectacles of cultural contact : the fable of the native prince -- the orangutang, the lap dog, and the parrot : the fable of the nonhuman being.
Hero Rising
Author : Jason Evans
Publisher : Jason Evans
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2011-07-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0987742507
Book Description
Absurd Ambition
Author : E. H. McCormick
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1775580156
Book Description
Eric McCormick was, from about 1940 until his death in 1995, one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers and scholars. He pioneered the appreciation and study of the painter Francis Hodgkins, and he wrote several biographies. The autobiographical fragments collected here have been edited to make a coherent volume, tracing his origins in Taihape, to school and university in Wellington, to schoolteaching in Nelson, to Cambridge and through his wartime experiences and role as editor of Centennial Publications. It includes his shrewd observations of social behaviour, recorded with a dry wit.
Material Identities
Author : Joanna Sofaer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0470693282
Book Description
Material Identities examines the way that individuals use material objects as tools for projecting aspects of their identities. Considers the way identity is fashioned, launched, used, and admired in the material world. Contributors intervene from the disciplines of art history, anthropology, design and material culture. Considers contrasting media - painting, print, sculpture, dress, coinage, architecture, furniture, luxury items, and interior design. Explores the complexity of identity through the intersection notions of gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and class. Reaffirms the central role of public identities and their impact on social life.
