A Chronology of the Southland -- 1. Introduction -- I. The Invention of a Southern Continent. 2. Terra Australis in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. 3. Terra Australis in the Early Renaissance. 4. Java la Grande and Magellanica. 5. The Spanish Vision of the Austral World: Mendana, Quiros, Torres. 6. Exotica in Sixteenth-Century Spain. 7. Art, Science and Exploration in Elizabethan England -- II. The Southern World in the Age of Dutch Expansion: 1606-1756. 8. The Dutch Image of the Southland. 9. Dutch Australian Expeditions: 1606-36. 10. Antony van Diemen and the Great Southland: 1636-45. 11. Art and the Dutch Trading Companies. 12. The Great Southland and the Republic of Letters: Nicolaas Witsen and his Kunstkammer. 13. Epilogue: Dutch Images of the Southland and the Voyage of the Endeavour -- 14. Conclusion
Summary
History of European pictorial images - paintings, maps, drawings, engravings, tapestries and artefacts - associated with the search for the southern continent; images from Java, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, South Pacific and Tierra del Fuego; images discussed in the context of the link between art, exploration and science; changes in iconography reflect view of continent as a paradise to that of an inferno
Analysis
Graphic arts Special subjects Voyages
Oceania
Art
Cultural anthropology
Description and travel
Maps and atlases
Natural resources
Notes
"The central thesis of this book was formulated in 1986-88, during the intensive planning stages of the Australian Bicentennial exhibition 'Terra Australis', ...curated for the Art Gallery of New South Wales" -- preface
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-175) and index