A companion to Australian art
2023
eBook
Abstract: 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.
Main title:
A companion to Australian art / edited by Christopher Allen.
Author:
Allen, Christopher, 1953-, editorCredo Reference (Firm), distributor
Edition:
[Enhanced Credo edition]
Imprint:
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2023.Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021.
Collation:
1 online resource (32 entries) : 49 images ; digital files.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.Also available in print version.Description based on title page of print version.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Contents:
Part I. Introduction and historiography. Chapter 1. Introduction / Christopher Allen ; Chapter 2. Historiography of Australian art / Molly Duggins ; Chapter 3. Public art museums in Australia: a brief history / Gerard VaughanPart II. Dwelling in Australia. Chapter 4. Early Sydney: a land of wonder and delight / Richard Neville ; Chapter 5. Art in Van Diemen's Land / David Hansen ; Chapter 6. Eugene von Guérard and Colonial Art in Melbourne, 1850-1880 / Ruth Pullin ; Chapter 7. The promised land: painting in nineteenth-century South Australia / Jane Hylton ; Chapter 8. Crocodiles, bottle-trees and pineapple fields: art in colonial Queensland / Glenn R. Cooke ; Chapter 9. Subject and object: locating the portrait in nineteenth-century Australia / Mark De Vitis ; Chapter 10. The Heidelberg School / Georgina ColePart III. Dwelling in the world. Chapter 11. Exodus / Barry Pearce ; Chapter 12. The Edwardian period (1901-1918) / Anna Gray ; Chatper 13. Color, commerce and the culture of change: Sydney modernism, 1915-1941 / Denise Mimmocchi ; Chapter 14. Angry Penguins / Jacqui Strecker ; Chapter 15. Australian high modernism / Sasha Grishin ; Chapter 16. Postwar art: the International context / Mary Eagle ; Chapter 17. Starting the sixties art boom / Christopher Heathcote ; Chapter 18. Avant-Gardism and the triumph of the Postmodern: 1960-1980 / Richard HaesePar IV. Artforms and themes. Chapter 19. Australian sculpture, nineteenth and twentieth century / Michael Hill ; Chapter 20. Between the real and the imagined photography in Australia / Isobel Crombie ; Chapter 21. Aboriginal art's expanding field: a new approach / Philip Jones ; Chapter 22. Conclusion: From postmodern to contemporary / Christopher Allen.
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
ISBN:
1118767586 (print)9781118767580 (print)9781803162089 (electronic version)
Dewey class:
709.94
LC class:
N7400
Language:
English
BRN:
651821
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