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OverviewEuropean 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 of people by making life casts. When the expedition returned to France, the casts were displayed, and later stored in the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, to be joined eventually by other casts from Dumoutier's collection, including those of the d'Urville and Dumoutier families. All were overtaken by photography and history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kriselle Baker , Elizabeth Rankin , Rhana DavenportPublisher: Otago University Press Imprint: Otago University Press Dimensions: Width: 25.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 33.00cm Weight: 1.588kg ISBN: 9781877578090ISBN 10: 1877578096 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 01 January 2011 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsForeword; In search of the present: Fiona Pardington's Ahua; Embossing the abyss: the work of Fiona Pardington; The truth of lineage: time and ta moko; Moulages du temps perdu: a voyage and its relics; Dumoutier's artifacts: a distant glimmer of ghosts; Facing difference: casts as document and display; Documents, specimens, portraits: Dumoutier's Oceanic casts; He ahua tipuna: faces of the ancestors; Et la tete: casting heads in the Pacific.ReviewsAuthor InformationDr 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 South African artists, and on sculptors and printmakers internationally. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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