Quanchi, Alan M. (2014) Norman H. Hardy: Book Illustrator and Artist. The Journal of Pacific History, 49 (2). pp. 214-233. ISSN 0022-3344
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Abstract
Norman H. Hardy is not a well-known historical character, so an element of salvage exists in bringing his art and book illustration to a wider audience. His short career as an artist with the Sydney Mail and the 68 paintings in The Savage South Seas in 1907 open up a wider discourse concerning the links between art and photography, between visitation and recording in the field, between art and journalism, and between popular imagination and the publishing practices for illustrated travelogues. Hardy's paintings of Papua, Solomon Islands and New Hebrides reached a wide audience and provide a close-up, intimate record of Indigenous life in the islands, as well as hinting at complex encounters between Islanders and traders. The visual evidence in The Savage South Seas also contributes to debates about the motivations of early 20th-century Euro-American travellers, authors and purchasers of books on the Pacific and provides yet another citation of notions of faraway lands and people in the Pacific as perceived by distant readers and audiences.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Law and Education (FALE) > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Fulori Nainoca - Waqairagata |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2014 02:49 |
| Last Modified: | 12 May 2016 02:51 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/7685 |
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