History 13/05/2019 bva212 week Twelve
History 13/05/2019 bva212 week Twelve Homework Re-enacting Art and Travel • In light of theories of re-enactment, Geoff Quilley argues that the landscape imagery produced by amateur British naval artists on voyages to Tahiti in the 1840s can be seen as re-enacting the art associated with Captain Cook’s voyages of the 1770s. • https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/17/re-enacting-art-and-travel From the following images (slide 25 and on), choose two artists to research and prepare a short bio • Answer these questions: • What do you think about these landscape images? • What story do they tell about New Zealand? • Do they have anything new to say, or are they a “re-enactment” of previous landscape artists? ...