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Useless beauty
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ISBN: 9781443884570 144388457X 9781443875486 1443875481 Year: 2015 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne

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The story of Australian art does not begin and end with landscape. This book puts flowers front and centre, because they have often been ignored in preference for more masculine themes.Departing from where studies of single flower artists leave off, Useless Beauty embraces the general topic of flowers in Australian art and shines new light on a slice of Australian art history that extends from 1880 to 1950. It is the first book of broad chronology to discuss Australian art through blossoms, which it does by addressing stories of major figures including Hans Heysen, Margaret Preston and Sidney

Contemporary Aboriginal Art : a guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture
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ISBN: 1865083054 Year: 2001 Publisher: Crows Nest Allen & Unwin

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La Peinture des aborigènes d'Australie
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ISBN: 2863645048 Year: 1993 Publisher: Marseille Parenthèses

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.

Painting culture : the making of an aboriginal high art
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ISBN: 9780822329497 0822329492 0822329328 9786612920424 1282920421 0822384167 Year: 2002 Publisher: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press,

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The history of the Australian Aboriginal painting movement from its local origins to its career in the international art market.

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