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Paradise Possessed: A collection of essays Paradise Possessed provides fascinating insights into the extraordinary Rex Nan Kivell Collection, one of the most remarkable and valuable collections of material held by a library anywhere in the world. A New Zealand-born collector, connoisseur and art dealer, Rex Nan Kivell amassed a remarkably diverse collection of special interest to all Australians - a collection that documents both European imaginings of the fabled Antipodes, and real European voyages to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Rex Nan Kivell cards are also available here Information on authors: Honore Forster was formerly a research officer in the Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra. Author of several books and articles relating to the history of whaling, her publication The South Sea Whaler (1985) has become the standard bibliographic guide to nineteenth-century whaling in the Pacific. Sasha Grishin is a Reader in Art History and Head of the Department of Art History and Visual Studies, at the Australian National University. His books include S.T. Gill: Dr Doyle's Sketches in Australia (1993), David Blackburn and the Visionary Landscape Tradition (1994), and John Wolseley: Landmarks (1998). Michelle Hetherington is the curator of The World Upside Down: Australia 1788-1830, and has a background in Fine Arts, majoring in Sculpture, English Literature, Art History and History. Barbara Perry worked in the National Library of Australia from 1968 until 1988. For 20 years, she held the position of Pictorial Librarian which included responsibility for the care of Rex Nan Kivell’s paintings, prints, drawings and historical objects relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Michael Richards is the Historian at Old Parliament House in Canberra and was the Curator of Exhibitions at the National Library of Australia for 9 years. Himself a child of Empire, he grew up in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, the descendent of English, Dutch, German and Welsh settlers in South Africa, India, Indonesia and New Zealand. Suzanne Rickard is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Division of Historical Studies, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. She is currently editing a scholarly edition of George Barrington’s Voyage to New South Wales (1795), using illustrative materials drawn from the Rex Nan Kivell Collection. Bernard Smith is a distinguished art historian, and a pioneer in Australia in interrogating the visual documentary record of the European penetration of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. His publications include Place, Taste and Tradition (1945), European Vision and the South Pacific (1960), a volume of autobiography The Boy Adeodatus (1985) and, with Rüdiger Joppien, The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages (1985-87). Nicholas Thomas completed a doctorate on Marquesan culture and contact history in 1986 at the Australian National University. He was a research fellow in cultural anthropology at King’s College, Cambridge, from 1986 to 1989, and then held Australian Research Council fellowships before taking up a position as Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University. He is currently Chair of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London. He has written widely on Pacific history, anthropological theory, and art. His books include Entangled Objects (1991) and Colonialism’s Culture (1994). John Thompson grew up in Australia in the 1950s. He is a graduate in history from Monash University and the Australian National University where he is now working on a study of the public career of historian Geoffrey Serle. From 1979 until 1999 he was employed at the National Library of Australia. He was Director of Australian Collections and Services from 1987-92. His publications include The People’s Treasures: Collections in the National Library of Australia (1997), Hurley’s Australia: Myth, Dream, Reality (1999), Of Love and Friendship (1998), Faces of Mandurama (1997) and The Oxford Book of Australian Letters (with Brenda Niall, 1998). At present, he is preparing an anthology of writings selected from Australian journals and diaries for Oxford University Press. Paul Turnbull is an historian and a past Harold White Fellow of the National Library. He has written extensively on ideas of history and anthropology since the late eighteenth century, and is currently a visiting senior research fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University. ISBN 0 642
10698 3 Last updated 11 September 2000
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