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Art in Oceania - A New History by Peter Brunt, Deirdre Brown & Nicholas Thomas
120.00 AUD
Category: Art
The arts of Oceania are astonishing: great statues, daunting tattoos, dynamic carving, dazzling woven and painted fabrics, intricately carved weapons, and a bewildering variety of ornaments, ritual objects, and utilitarian but beautiful things. This landmark book breaks new ground by setting the art of ...Show more
Discoveries - The Voyages of Captain Cook by Nicholas Thomas
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Reading Level: very good
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: Art
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: Art | Reading Level: very good
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: Australian Studies
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
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist'A refreshing addition to the canon of literature that contemplates Oceanic navig ...Show more
Voyagers: The settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From an award-winning scholar, the extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. Thousands of islands, inhabited by a multitude of different peoples, are scattered across the vastness of the Pacific. The first European explorers to visit Oceania, from the sixteenth ...Show more
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