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Special Interest Day ‘The Cult of the South Pacific – From Cook to Gaugin’
March 7, 2016
Special Interest Day
The Cult of the South Pacific – From Cook to Gaugin
Lecturer – Leslie Primo
We will chart the western obsession with the South Pacific through the eyes of Captain Cook and those who came before him, and through the eyes of the artists who accompanied these pioneering voyages into the 19th. and early 20th. centuries. with Gaugin’s images.
Artists such as William Hodges, Benjamin West, John Webber, John Cleverly and Paul Gaugin helped to perpetuate the notion of the exotic and the myth of paradise. These foreign explorations involved Royal Academicians such as Sir Joshua Reynolds, Johann Zoffany and the botanist Joseph Banks.
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