perplexed - still

think about this one by Morgan Meiss and write back - 'perplexed' by art, is it modern or ancient... is that even a question nowadays?

A M Fernando

Human Rights protestor
The Lone Protestor: A M Fernando in Australia and Europe
Fiona Paisley review by DR Oliver Haag

Herbert Mayer

Herbert Mayer
Records relating to World House Galleries in New York, est. 1953. Closed 1968.World House Galleries was founded by Herbert Mayer, Sr. The gallery represented an eclectic group of artists from Austria, France, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Greece, Norway, Spain, and Sweden.

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
Link to catalogue

Oceania at the RA 2018

reviews/ interviews etc of Oceania at the Royal Academy
https://museumnetwork.sothebys.com/en/articles/meet-the-curator-of-oceania-at-the-ra

artdesk

Guardian  Oceania review – marvels of the human mind that were ripped off by modernists 5 stars

Tabish Kahn learnt nothing

12^th conference of the European Society for Oceanists

The Dufour tapestry and Lisa Reihana 

John Mawurndjul: I Am the Old and the New

John Mawurndjul: I Am the Old and the New

https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4694/john-mawurndjul-i-am-the-old-and-the-new/

Pacific and Climate Change

climate change strategies post- colony

post truth: historical hysterical

21 Lesson in the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari

Enlightenment links

Encyclopédie wikipedia

Showing in Delhi

Postcolonial gaze... review of exhibition at Delhi's National Gallery of Modern Art by Bhumika Popli in Sunday Guardian 
published : July 21, 2018, 11:43 am | Updated : July 21, 2018, 11:43 AM

Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia i

 at Delhi’s National Gallery of Modern Art till 26 August 2018

Portico project: Entwined

National Library Australia website of journals here

Endeavour Journal of  Sir Joseph Banks
16 Jan 1769 trip into country of Tierra del Fuego resulting in death of two men: Thomas Richmond and George Dorlton ( noted as black servants)

CAPTAIN COOK'S JOURNAL DURING HIS FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
MADE IN H.M. BARK "ENDEAVOUR"
1768-71
A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS.
WITH NOTES AND INTRODUCTION
EDITED BY CAPTAIN W.J.L. WHARTON, R.N., F.R.S.
Hydrographer of the Admiralty.
Illustrated by Maps and Facsimiles

Criticism of Hawkesworth by Dalyrymple
Review of Beaglehole's edition of Cook's Journals

Illustrations from Endeavour
Parkinson breadfruit
Parkinson Lecanthus solandri

Review of Adam Smith
Adam Smith on colonies
Smith
Revolutionary bourgeois Smith
Weingast on Smith slavery and abolition
aka the Wealth of Nations
Capitalism and imperialism

Anson's map 
George Anson, First Admiral/ pirate : lost 3 of 6 ships; pirated 1,313,843 pieces of eight, from a Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Covadonga off Cape Espiritu Santo in 1743 - made him very rich!
Noted for his 'indomitable perseverance he had shown during one of the most arduous voyages in the history of sea adventure gained the reward of the capture of an immensely rich prize,' Read that character trait through the eyes of his crew !

Southern Theory: social science and the global dynamic of knowledge. Raewyn W. Connell

Alix Cooper Inventing the Indigenous: Local knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe 

'Latin Words, Vernacular Worlds: Language, Nature, and the 'Indigenous' in Early Modern Europe'

East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, No. 26 (2007), pp. 17-39

Bacon Instauratio Magna 

Tupaia map and drawings

The banana tree, shown in Tupaia's drawing, is one of 70 species of the genus Musa, named in Latin by Linnaeus from the Arabic Mauz in 1753

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_(genus)

Hawkesworth on Cook Lynne Truss on 'hubristic book editor' of An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere

Maps

forcing perspectival change

Mobile Worlds | Hamburg
Through Oct. 14 at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; mkg-hamburg.de.
 Curator Roger M. Buergel

Review