The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art

From 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.

Foreword
Director of the National Gallery of Australia	p. ix
List of contributors	p. xi
Editor's Preface	p. xix
Cross-Cultural Encounters: Introduction	p. 1
Special Places and Images on Rock: 50 000 Years of Indigenous Engagement with Australian Landscape	p. 11
The Art of Contact: Encountering an Aboriginal Aesthetic from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries	p. 22
Expressions of Social Identity by Settlers and Indigenes in the First 80 Years of British Colonisation	p. 38
Imperial Perspectives on Art in Nineteenth-Century Australia	p. 55
National Life and Landscape: The Heidelberg School as Mythmaker 1880-1905	p. 71
Australian Artists within a Wider World 1900-1930	p. 84
Print - Matters	p. 97
Foreign Natives: Australian Modernism 1915-1955	p. 109
Art of Central Australia: Refigured Ground	p. 122
Transformations of Bark Painting since the Nineteenth Century	p. 143
Coming to Terms with Aboriginal Art in the 1960s	p. 153
The Story of the Sixties... A Pile-Up on the Freeway of Advanced Art	p. 168
The Gift that Time Gave: Myth and History in the Western Desert Painting Movement	p. 180
Photography and Australia	p. 193
Picturing Self-Determination: The Use of Photography by Indigenous Australian Artists	p. 204
'Asian Art' and Australia	p. 204
Post-Provincial, Still Peripheral: Australian Art on the Global Stage 1980-2009	p. 231
Transnational Virtuality: New Media Art, Contemporary Concerns	p. 248
The Cross-Cultural Art Museum in Australia	p. 261
Buying and Selling Australian Art: A Brief Historical Survey	p. 290
Notes	p. 307
List of illustrations	p. 345
Index	p. 368
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