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The warrior, the voyager and the artist : three lives in an age of empire / Kate Fullagar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fullagar, Kate, author.
- Series:
- Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.
- Reynolds, Joshua.
- Omai.
- Portrait painters--Great Britain--Biography.
- Portrait painters.
- Cherokee Indians--Biography.
- Cherokee Indians.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Travel.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Indigenous peoples--Travel--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Indians of North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Indians of North America.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century.
- Colonies.
- America.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.
- Civilization.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 306 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both. This engaging history of empire brings together the stories of Joshua Reynolds and two of his portraiture subjects - Ostenaco and Mai - and explores the intrusion of the British Empire into indigenous societies and the resilience of two peoples. Fullagar uncovers the life of Ostenaco, tracing his emergence as a Cherokee warrior, his engagement with colonists through war and peace, and his eventual rejection of imperial politics during the American Revolution. She delves into the story of Mai, exploring his youth in Ra'iatea, his confrontation with war and displacement, his voyage to London on Cook's imperial expedition, and his return home with a burning ambition to right past wrongs. Woven throughout is the story of Joshua Reynolds, growing up in Devon near a key port in England, becoming a portraitist of empire, rising to the top of Britain's art world and yet maintaining an ambivalence about his nation's expansionist trajectory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300243062
- 0300243065
- OCLC:
- 1090443184
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