The Other Side of the World

Visual culture of Polynesia
1. tattoos
  2. bound up in spirit world a defence
    1. meaning not understood note Banks/Mutineers
2. tiki
  1. curiosity - meanings not understood
    1. savage had no culture barbarism or skill?
      1. but abstract designs = positive
How Europeans were perceived
How Polynesia was represented by Europeans
1. Quest for knowledge
  1. Cook's 3 voyages
    1. Buchan - Man with tattoos
2. Paradise on earth
3. Official visual accounts were 'classical'
  1. Communicate an ideal
    1. Cipriani's A View of the Indians of T del F v Buchan's
  2. Enlightenment
    1. humanity perfectible
4. Communicate an ideal
  1. Hodge's landing paintings 1777
    1. Forster's criticism
    2. View of Otaheite Bay 1776
      1. Claudean - commercial - not barbaric
    3. View taken in Otaheite Peha 1776
      1. arcadian bliss
      2. death in paradise
Aesthetic attitudes
1. Official accounts were 'classicised'
Other cultures e.g. S America
1. Noble savage
  1. barbarian earliest form of human dev
    1. Scot Enlightenment
    2. ascent from nature
  2. represents lost ideal
    1. Rousseau
    2. descent from nature
Cooks voyages
1. France v Britain
2. Sponsorship of Royal Society
  1. Joseph Banks
re-reading
1. Harriet Guest
  1. Euro/Pacific
    1. Otaheite Peha - 2 modes
      1. claudian atmospheric
        Italian ren = grand & open
      2. detailing e.g. tattoo on buttock
        North ren
        lack of cohesion = tension our civilisation & their barbarism
2. Tupaia drawings
  1. perception they cannot draw
  2. asserting equality with Europeans

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