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The furthest shore : images of Terra Australis from the Middle Ages to Captain Cook / William Eisler.
Record no.:
6482
Author:
Eisler, William Lawrence, 1948-;
Publisher:
Melbourne :: Cambridge University Press,
Year:
1995.
Description:
xi, 180 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 29 cm
Subject:
SC Reconciliation Group.;
Australasia in art - History.;
Art and science.;
Oceania - In art.;
Art - Psychological aspects.;
Graphic arts - Europe - History - 17th century.;
Australia - In art.;
Pacific Area in art.;
Australia in art.;
Graphic arts - Europe - History - 16th century.;
Graphic arts - Europe - History.;
Travel in art.;
Pacific Area - In art.;
Voyages and travels in art.;
Graphic arts - Europe - History - 18th century.;
Art - Psychology.;
Australia - Description and travel.;
Oceania - Discovery and exploration.;
Australasia - Discovery and exploration Pictorial works.;
Australia - Historical geography Maps.;
Australia - Discovery and exploration - Pictorial works Exhibitions.;
Australia - Discovery and exploration - Pictorial works.;
Australia - Discovery and exploration - Pictorial works - Exhibitions.;
Australia - Pictorial works Exhibitions.;
Australia - Discovery and exploration.;
Australia - Pictorial works - Exhibitions.;
Notes:
"The central thesis of this book was formulated in 1986-88, during the intensive planning stages of the Australian Bicentennial exhibition 'Terra Australis', ...curated for the Art Gallery of New South Wales" -- preface.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-175) and index.Noel Dan
Gift ;
2023.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0521392683;
Abstract:
A Chronology of the Southland -- 1. Introduction -- I. The Invention of a Southern Continent. 2. Terra Australis in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. 3. Terra Australis in the Early Renaissance. 4. Java la Grande and Magellanica. 5. The Spanish Vision of
the Austral World: Mendana, Quiros, Torres. 6. Exotica in Sixteenth-Century Spain. 7. Art, Science and Exploration in Elizabethan England -- II. The Southern World in the Age of Dutch Expansion: 1606-1756. 8. The Dutch Image of the Southland. 9. Dutch Australian Expeditions: 1606-36. 10. Antony van Diemen and the Great Southland: 1636-45. 11. Art and the Dutch Trading Companies. 12. The Great Southland and the Republic of Letters: Nicolaas Witsen and his Kunstkammer. 13. Epilogue: Dutch Images of the Southland and the Voyage of the Endeavour -- 14. Conclusion.

History of European pictorial images - paintings, maps, drawings, engravings, tapestries and artefacts - associated with the search for the southern continent; images from Java, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, South Pacific and Tierra del Fuego; images discussed in the context of the link between art, exploration and science; changes in iconography reflect view of continent as a paradise to that of an inferno.
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