02487nam 22004333u 450 991078776360332120230803032026.01-86940-640-0(CKB)2670000000496108(EBL)1411758(OCoLC)863821854(MiAaPQ)EBC1411758(EXLCZ)99267000000049610820151012d2013|||| u|| |engColonial Constructs[electronic resource] European Images of the Maori, 1840-1914Auckland Auckland University Press20131 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The 1840's and Early 1850's: G. F. Angas, S. C. Brees, R. A. Oliver, J. J. Merrett, C. Clarke, W. Beetham, and J. W. Carmichael""; ""2 Gilfillan and Strutt""; ""3 Representations of Maori by Artists Active in New Zealand in the 1860's""; ""4 Late Nineteenth-/Early Twentieth-Century Historical Paintings""; ""5 Lindauer's Paintings of Maori Customs and Legend""; ""6 Wilhelm Dittmer""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Index""How did the European settler perceive Maori? What images of Maori society and culture did European artists create for their distant audiences? What preconceptions and aesthetic models lay behind early European depictions of Maori? These are some of the questions explored by art historian Leonard Bell in this major study of the relationship between the visual representation of Maori and the ideology of colonialism. He explores the complex and unbalanced cultural interchange between Europeans and Maori in nineteenth-century New Zealand, in addition to showing how the great range and varietyArt, European -- 19th centuryArt, European -- 20th centuryMaori (New Zealand people) in artNew Zealand -- In artArt, European -- 19th century.Art, European -- 20th century.Maori (New Zealand people) in art.New Zealand -- In art.760.0449993004994760/.0449993004994Bell Leonard1481842AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910787763603321Colonial Constructs3699092UNINA