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White Aborigines : identity politics in Australian art
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ISBN: 0521584167 0521120675 0511586086 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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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ISBN: 0500280975 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Thames and Hudson

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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Maori [culture or style] --- art [fine art] --- indigenous people --- tribal art --- Art --- New Zealand --- Australia --- Art, Modern --- -Folk art --- -Indigenous peoples --- -Maori (New Zealand people) --- -Aboriginal Australians --- -Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Peasant art --- Popular art --- Art, Primitive --- Decorative arts --- Modern art --- Primitive influences --- Colonization --- Ethnic identity --- Aboriginal Australians in art. --- Art, Aboriginal Australian --- Art, Australian --- Art, Maori --- Art, New Zealand --- Maori (New Zealand people) in art. --- Western influences. --- Aboriginal Australian influences. --- Maori influences. --- -Primitive influences --- -Peasant art --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aboriginal Australians in art --- Maori (New Zealand people) in art --- Maori (New Zealand people) --- Civilization, Western --- Aboriginal Australians --- Australian aborigines in art --- Australian aborigines in European art --- Western influences --- Aboriginal Australian influences --- Maori influences --- Australian aboriginal influences --- Māori (New Zealand people) --- art [discipline]

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