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Fiona Pardington
Kriselle Baker
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Description for Fiona Pardington
Hardcover. Editor(s): Baker, Kriselle; Rankin, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 160 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: AGC; AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 337 x 254 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1594.
European explorers of the Pacific in the 18th and early 19th centuries faced a problem – how to describe the people they met and report what they had seen and found. From Cook onwards, a serious expedition included artists and scientists in its ship's company. An ambitious journey of the 19th century was the third voyage of the French explorer Dumont d'Urville, from 1837 to 1840. It was just before the invention of photography, when phrenology, the study of people's skulls, was the latest thing. D'Urville chose to take on the voyage an eminent phrenologist, Pierre-Marie Dumoutier, to preserve likenesses ... Read more
European explorers of the Pacific in the 18th and early 19th centuries faced a problem – how to describe the people they met and report what they had seen and found. From Cook onwards, a serious expedition included artists and scientists in its ship's company. An ambitious journey of the 19th century was the third voyage of the French explorer Dumont d'Urville, from 1837 to 1840. It was just before the invention of photography, when phrenology, the study of people's skulls, was the latest thing. D'Urville chose to take on the voyage an eminent phrenologist, Pierre-Marie Dumoutier, to preserve likenesses ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Otago University Press New Zealand
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
, New Zealand
ISBN
9781877578090
SKU
V9781877578090
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About Kriselle Baker
Dr Kriselle Baker is a freelance writer and curator. She is the author of The Desire of the Line: Ralph Hotere Figurative Works (Auckland, 2005) and, with Vincent O'Sullivan, Ralph Hotere (Auckland, 2008). Prof. Elizabeth Rankin teaches Art History at Auckland University. Previously professor at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, her writing has focused on retrieving the histories of neglected ... Read more
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