Fiona Pardington: the pressure of sunlight falling / edited by Kriselle Baker and Elizabeth Rankin.

Nā:

Pardington, Fiona, 1961- [artist.]

Kaituhi:

Momo rauemi: Text

TextKaiwhakaputa:Dunedin : Otago University Press in association with the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Two Rooms Gallery, 2011.Whakaahuatanga: 160 p. : ill. (some col.), map, ports. ; 34 cmISBN:

9781877578090

Tētahi atu taitaia:

Pressure of sunlight falling [Portion of title]

Ngā marau:

Contents:

Foreword / Rhana Devenport -- In search of the present: Fiona Pardington's Āhua / Kriselle Baker and Elizabeth Rankin -- Embossing the abyss: the work of Fiona Pardington / David Elliott -- Truth of lineage: time and tā moko / Kriselle Baker -- Images by Fiona Pardington: Dumont d'Urville and Dumoutier families -- Moulages du temps perdu: a voyage and its relics / Nicholas Thomas -- Images by Fiona Pardington: Gambier Islands (Mangarewa), Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, Solomon Islands -- Dumoutier's artifacts: a distant glimmer of ghosts / Yves le Fur -- Images by Fiona Pardington: Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Papua New Guinea -- Facing difference: casts as document and display / Elizabeth Rankin -- Documents, specimens, portraits: Dumoutier's oceanic casts / Stacy L. Kamehiro -- He āhua tīpuna: faces of the ancestors / Ross Calman -- Kei tua o te aka, beyond the husk / Ariana Tikao -- Images by Fiona Pardington: Aotearoa New Zealand -- Et la tête: casting heads in the Pacific / Anne Salmond -- Images by Fiona Pardington: Timor, La Réunion, Madagascar, Mozambique -- Dramatis personae.

Summary: European 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, any 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... Fiona Pardington first learnt of the life casts in 2007, when a chance conversation initiated a four-year project. It took her from Auckland to the Musée de l'Homme, as she researched and photographed some of more than fifty casts of Maori, Pacific and European heads, including casts of her Ngai Tahu ancestors. This book publishes these photographs and coincides with the opening of a major travelling exhibition. The photographs are extraordinarily beautiful, evocative and spiritually powerful images. They recover likenesses and revive the life force of Dumoutier?s subjects, eliciting our empathy and fascination with a world we can never really know... With essays by leading scholars in Pacific history, art and photography, on subjects as diverse as phrenology and cast-making, the voyage, and the identity of the Maori casts, it will appeal to anyone interested in nineteenth- century encounters between voyagers and the peoples of the Pacific, or contemporary art and photography."--Publisher description.

Ngā tūtohu mai i tēnei whare pukapuka: Kāore he tūtohu i tēnei whare pukapuka mō tēnei taitara. Takiuru ki te tāpiri tūtohu.

Ngā puringa
Momo tuemi	Tauwāhi onāianei	Kohinga	Tau karanga	Tūnga	Rā oti	Waeherepae	Ngā puringa tuemi
Nonfiction	Stratford Nonfiction	Nonfiction	779 PAR (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below))	Wātea		A00812935

Ngā puringa katoa: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-157).

European 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, any 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... Fiona Pardington first learnt of the life casts in 2007, when a chance conversation initiated a four-year project. It took her from Auckland to the Musée de l'Homme, as she researched and photographed some of more than fifty casts of Maori, Pacific and European heads, including casts of her Ngai Tahu ancestors. This book publishes these photographs and coincides with the opening of a major travelling exhibition. The photographs are extraordinarily beautiful, evocative and spiritually powerful images. They recover likenesses and revive the life force of Dumoutier?s subjects, eliciting our empathy and fascination with a world we can never really know... With essays by leading scholars in Pacific history, art and photography, on subjects as diverse as phrenology and cast-making, the voyage, and the identity of the Maori casts, it will appeal to anyone interested in nineteenth- century encounters between voyagers and the peoples of the Pacific, or contemporary art and photography."--Publisher description.

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