Oceans Apart: Art and the Pacific with James Fox
Season 12018
Art historian Dr James Fox traces the momentous impact of the west's contact with the peoples and cultures of the Pacific. It is a story of exploration, encounter and exploitation.
Art historian Dr James Fox traces the momentous impact of the west's contact with the peoples and cultures of the Pacific. It is a story of exploration, encounter and exploitation.
3 Episodes
James Fox tells the story of Australia's indigenous culture, the oldest continuous culture anywhere in the world.
September 10, 2018In his exploration of the collision of the West and Pacific culture, James Fox explores how the West has created a vision of Polynesia as paradise.
September 17, 2018James Fox explores how New Zealand's indigenous Maori people resisted colonisation and marginalisation and maintained their distinctive culture.
September 24, 2018