A Companion to Australian Art

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A Companion to Australian Art A Companion to Australian Art is a thorough introduction to the art produced in Australia from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to the early 21st century. Beginning with the colonial art made by Australia’s first European settlers, this volume presents a collection of clear and accessible essays by established art historians and emerging scholars alike. Engaging, clearly-written chapters provide fresh insights into the principal Australian art movements, considered from a variety of chronological, regional and thematic perspectives. The text seeks to provide a balanced account of historical events to help readers discover the art of Australia on their own terms and draw their own conclusions. The book begins by surveying the historiography of Australian art and exploring the history of art museums in Australia. The following chapters discuss art forms such as photography, sculpture, portraiture and landscape painting, examining the practice of art in the separate colonies before Federation, and in the Commonwealth from the early 20th century to the present day. This authoritative volume covers the last 250 years of art in Australia, including the Early Colonial, High Colonial and Federation periods as well as the successive Modernist styles of the 20th century, and considers how traditional Aboriginal art has adapted and changed over the last fifty years. The Companion to Australian Art is a valuable resource for both undergraduate and graduate students of the history of Australian artforms from colonization to postmodernism, and for general readers with an interest in the nation’s colonial art history. A Companion to Australian Art Contents I: Introduction and Historiography 1. Introduction 2. Historiography of Australian Art 3. Public Art Museums in Australia: A Brief History II: Dwelling in Australia 4. Early Sydney: A Land of Wonder and Delight 5. Art in Van Diemen’s Land 6. Eugene von Guérard and Colonial Art in Melbourne, 1850–1880 7. The Promised Land: Painting in Nineteenth-Century South Australia 8. Crocodiles, Bottle-Trees and Pineapple Fields: Art in Colonial Queensland 9. Subject and Object: Locating the Portrait in Nineteenth-Century Australia 10. The Heidelberg School III: Dwelling in the World 11. Exodus 12. The Edwardian Period (1901–1918) 13. Color, Commerce and the Culture of Change: Sydney Modernism, 1915–1941 14. Angry Penguins 15. Australian High Modernism 16. Postwar Art: The International Context 17. Starting the Sixties Art Boom 18. Avant-Gardism and the Triumph of the Postmodern: 1960–1980 IV: Artforms and Themes 19. Australian Sculpture, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century 20. Between the Real and The Imagined Photography in Australia 21. Aboriginal Art’s Expanding Field: A New Approach 22. Conclusion: From Postmodern to Contemporary Index EULA