White Aborigines - Identity Politics in Australian Art

Klappentext An original exploration of the influence of Aboriginality on Australian art and identity. Zusammenfassung This book investigates how identities have been constructed in Australian art from 1788 onwards. Ian McLean shows that Australian art has! since settlement! been in a dialogue with Aboriginal art and culture; and that this dialogue is inextricably interwoven with the struggle to find an identity in the antipodes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Ocean and the Antipodes; 2. Artful killings; 3. The art of settlement; 4. The bad conscience of impressionism; 5. Aboriginalism and Australian nationalism; 6. The Aboriginal renaissance; 7. Aboriginality and contemporary Australian painting; 8. Painting for a new republic; Postscript: The wandering islands; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ian McLean, Ian (University of Tasmania) Mclean
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521120678
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12067-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; ART / History / General, ART / Australian & Oceanian, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Relating to indigenous peoples, The arts: general topics, Indigenous styles