Hooper, Steven — Pacific Encounters: Art & Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860

Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, for the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volume, big, tall, quarto-sized trade edition with glossy, pictorial card-stock wraps. Stuffed with full-color, full-page and also black-and-white illustrations and photographs about the artistic endeavor and legacy in the insular Pacific, all 270 reproductions from the major regions of Polynesia, many from the British Museum and from the voyages of Captain Cook, Captain Vancouver and members of the London Missionary Society. The exhibition on which the book is based was held 21 May to 13 August 2006 at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. [12], 13-287 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine