The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art
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GBPFrom rock art to Australian modernism, from bark paintings to the Heidelberg School, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art provides a wide-ranging overview of the movements, themes and media found in Australian art. This Companion features essays that explore the influence of different cultures on Australian art, written by some of the leading scholars and professionals working in the field. Generously illustrated with over 200 colour images, from more than 40 collections and sites throughout Australia, this Companion provides a comprehensive exploration of the artistic identity of past and present Australia.
- Generously illustrated with over 200 colour images from over 40 collections and sites throughout Australia
- Essays from leading academics and gallery professionals on artists, movements, themes and media in Australian art
- Includes chapters on early colonial art, Australian modernism, the Heidelberg School, print, photography, 1960s art, 'Asian Art' and Australia, and buying and selling Australian art
- Extensive coverage of indigenous art, including rock art, bark paintings, central Australian art, the Western Desert painting movement, 1960s Aboriginal art, photography and Aboriginal artists
Reviews & endorsements
'The strength of the work lies in its original approach linking the work of artists to their cultural background inside Australia and overseas … This book is an indispensable and trusty companion to anyone fortunate enough to explore the treasures in Australian art galleries. Its thoughtful and clear analyses will add considerably to any visit.' Diana Dixon, Reference Reviews
'The overriding merit of [this book] is that it initiates new ways of seeing one of the finest, least known national schools of art.' The Times Literary Supplement
Product details
November 2011Paperback
9781107601581
398 pages
228 × 152 × 28 mm
0.82kg
246 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- Editor's preface
- 1. Introduction Jaynie Anderson
- 2. Special places and images on rock:
- 50,000 years of indigenous engagement with Australian landscapes Paul Tacon
- 3. Encountering an Aboriginal aesthetic from the eighteenth to the twentieth century Philip Jones
- 4. Home: expressions of social identity from the 1820s to 1860s Mary Eagle
- 5. Cultural acclimatization: Australian colonial art within the British Empire Alison Inglis
- 6. National life and landscape: the Heidelberg School as mythmaker 1880–1905 Ann Galbally
- 7. Australian artists within a wider world 1900–1920 Anne Gray
- 8. Print – matters Roger Butler
- 9. Foreign natives: Australian modernism 1915–1955 Anthony White
- 10. Art in central Australia: refigured ground John Carty and Alison French
- 11. Transformations of bark painting from the nineteenth century until today Luke Taylor
- 12. Coming to terms with Aboriginal art in the 1960s Howard Morphy
- 13. When and what was the 1960s? Andrew McNamara and Ann Stephen
- 14. The gift that time gave: myth and history in the Western Desert painting movement Ian McLean
- 15. Photography and Australia Isobel Crombie
- 16. Picturing self-determination: the use of photography by Australian indigenous artists Jonathan Jones
- 17. 'Asian art' and Australia John Clark
- 18. Post-provincial, still peripheral: Australian art on the global stage, 1980–2009 Anthony Gardner
- 19. Transnational virtuality: new media art, contemporary concerns Terence Smith
- 20. The cross-cultural art museum in Australia Gerard Vaughan
- 21. Buying and selling Australian art: a brief historical survey Jane Clark and Wally Caruana.
