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This book investigates how identities have been constructed in Australian art from 1788 to the present. Ian McLean shows that Australian art, and the writing of its history, has since settlement been in a dialogue (although often submerged) with Aboriginal art and culture; and that this dialogue is inextricably interwoven with the struggle to find an identity in the antipodes. Beginning with a discussion of how Australia was imagined by Europeans before colonisation, McLean traces the representation of indigeneity through the history of Australian art, and the concomitant invention of an…mehr

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This book investigates how identities have been constructed in Australian art from 1788 to the present. Ian McLean shows that Australian art, and the writing of its history, has since settlement been in a dialogue (although often submerged) with Aboriginal art and culture; and that this dialogue is inextricably interwoven with the struggle to find an identity in the antipodes. Beginning with a discussion of how Australia was imagined by Europeans before colonisation, McLean traces the representation of indigeneity through the history of Australian art, and the concomitant invention of an Australian subjectivity. He argues that the colonising culture invested far more in indigenous aspects of the country and its inhabitants than it has been willing to admit. McLean considers artists and their work within a cultural context, and also provides a contemporary theoretical and critical context for his claims.

Table of contents:
1. Ocean and the Antipodes; 2. Artful killings: melancholy, metaphor and the aesthetic practices of colonial art, 1500-1870; 3. The art of settlement, 1790-1880; 4. The triumph and limits of impressionism, 1880-1910; 5. Aboriginalism and Australian nationalism, 1900-1960; 6. The Aboriginal renaissance and its impact on Australian painting, 1940-1990; 7. The reception of Aboriginality in contemporary Australian painting, 1980-1996; 8. Painting for a new republic: Gordon Bennett's mirror play, 1988-1996; Postscript: What do Australians want?

An original exploration of the influence of Aboriginality on Australian art and identity.

An original exploration of the influence of Aboriginality on Australian art and identity.