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Art in Oceania - A New History by Peter William Brunt; Nicholas Thomas
$99.95 AUD
Category: Art
Masks and figural sculptures are the most familiar examples of the visual culture of Oceania, yet they provide only a glimpse of the fascinating art of this diverse region. Artisans of the Pacific Islands and Australia have produced objects ranging from stained and beaten fabric, rock engravings, and wo ...Show more
Artefacts of Encounter - Cook's Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories by Nicholas Thomas (ed.); Julie Adams (ed.); Billie Lythberg (ed.); Maia Nuku (ed.); Amiria Salmond (ed.)
$76.95 AUD
Category: History
The Pacific artefacts and works of art collected during the three voyages of Captain James Cook and the navigators, traders and missionaries who followed him are of foundational importance for the study of art and culture in Oceania. These collections are representative not only of technologies or belie ...Show more
Discoveries - The Voyages of Captain Cook by Nicholas Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and Melanesians of the Pacific, Cook's arrival in their mid ...Show more
Gauguin and Polynesia by Nicholas Thomas
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art
Paul Gauguin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest modern artists. He is renowned for resplendent, mythic imagery from Oceania, for a life of restless travel and for his supposed immersion in Polynesian life. But he has long been regarded ambivalently, and in recent years both Gauguin's sexual be ...Show more
Oceania by Peter Brunt, Noelle Kahanu, Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Sean Mallon, Michael Mel, Anne Salmond, & Nicholas Thomas
$110.00 AUD
Category: History
250 years after Cook's voyage to the South Pacific, the dazzling and diverse art of Oceania, from the historic to the contemporary. From the remote shores of Rapa Nui to the dense rainforest of Papua New Guinea, the islands of the Pacific are home to some of the most culturally diverse populations on th ...Show more
Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization by Nicholas Thomas
$49.99 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Art
A timely re-examination of European engagements with indigenous art and the presence of indigenous art in the contemporary art world. The arts of Africa, Oceania and native America famously inspired twentieth-century modernist artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Ernst. The politics of such stimulus, ho ...Show more
The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Voyages by Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Anyone who loves history, science, art, or classic tales of adventure will be enthralled by the journeys of Captain James Cook and his intrepid crews. Three epic voyages took them to South America, the Southern Ocean, New Zealand, Australia, Alaska, Siberia, the East Indies, and across the vast Indian O ...Show more
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