Reimagining Captain Cook: Pacific Perspectives
Resource type
Book
Creator (person)
Adams, Julie
Bolton, Lissant
Date published
2019
Abstract
The accompanying publication to the British Museum exhibition Reimagining Captain Cook: Pacific Perspectives, held from 29 November 2018 – 4 August 2019.
On the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s extraordinary voyages of exploration, this publication reflects on and charts the enduring legacies of his encounters with Pacific peoples. Objects collected and images made on or associated with the voyages are explored alongside artworks created by contemporary artists from the Pacific region. Together, they reveal that understandings of history are rarely agreed and always shifting, while Cook and the impacts of his voyages are reimagined as complex, contentious and unresolved.
Project(s)
Reimagining Captain Cook: Pacific Perspectives
Publisher
British Museum Press
Place of publication
London
Rights statement
In Copyright
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