Jonathan Holmes
Jonathan Holmes taught art history and theory at the University of Tasmania's School of Art for thirty-five years until his retirement in 2012. His research interests include the history and curating of contemporary Australian art, wilderness and natural environment issues in relation to the visual arts, and nineteenth century French art and criticism.
At the conclusion of the fascinating essay ‘Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Cook’s Second Voyage’ in his recently published book Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of the Cook Voyages, Bernard Smith writes:
The most carefully planned and the most scientifically and efficiently conducted expedition ever made up to its time in the realm of reality provided the poet with a world of wonder ... (read more)