Oceans Apart: Art and the Pacific with James Fox
Art Historian James Fox explores how colonial explorers devastated the indigenous communities of Southwest Pacific, while also introducing the world to aboriginal art and culture.
- 2018-2018
- 1 season
- Documentary
Art Historian James Fox explores how colonial explorers devastated the indigenous communities of Southwest Pacific, while also introducing the world to aboriginal art and culture.
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2018
Episode 1
Australia
59 mins
Episode 2
Polynesia
59 mins
Dr. James Fox travels from Australia to Polynesia to New Zealand as he investigates the history of art in each distinct culture.
Episode 3
New Zealand
59 mins
Art historian Dr. James Fox traces the momentous impact of the West's contact with New Zealand in this episode. The Maori people arrived about 8 thousand years ago. In the 2nd half of the 18 th century James Cook and his crew travelled there.
