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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 August 2012
      06 April 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511586088
      9780521584166
      9780521120678
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511586088
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 216 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.32kg, 216 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Art: General Interest, Art, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
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    Art: General Interest, Art, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
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    This book investigates how identities have been constructed in Australian art from 1788 onwards. 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.

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    Review of the hardback:‘White Aborigines is a revealing and inspirational book …’

    George Menham Source: The Australian National Review

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