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.
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?
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