- Title
- Black Out: Classicising Indigeneity in Australia and New Zealand
- Creator
- Johnson, Marguerite
- Relation
- Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Studies Down Under p. 13-28
- Relation
- Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350021266.ch-001
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The colonization of both New Zealand and Australia in the 1800s was recorded in numerous publications based on the original journals of explorers, naval captains and crew members. Accounts of the voyages, the explorations of the lands of New Zealand and Australia, and the processes of colonization were accompanied by illustrations of flora, fauna and maps; in addition, descriptions of Aboriginal Australians and Māori were recorded in the fieldnotes of scientists and natural history artists who were also members of the crew. These books were popular and catered to the West’s fascination with recently ‘discovered’ lands and peoples. This chapter examines the illustrations in two publications and two artists’ field illustrations with a methodological eye to Classical Reception Studies to consider the representations of First Australians and Māori with recourse to ancient Mediterranean sculpture. This use of classicism is evident in two engravings from the monograph of John Hunter published in 1793: the watercolour, ‘A Native Wounded while asleep’ (c. 1788–97) by the ‘Port Jackson Painter’; and a pen and wash, ‘New Zealand War Canoe bidding defiance to the Ship’ (1770) by Sydney Parkinson, reproduced in the monograph by John Hawkesworth (1773).
- Subject
- colonization; New Zealand; Australia; Indigeneity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1447675
- Identifier
- uon:43211
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781350021235
- Language
- eng
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