{"product_id":"a-companion-to-australian-art-isbn-9781118767580","title":"A Companion to Australian Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Australian Art\u003c\/i\u003e is a thorough introduction to the art produced in Australia from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to the early 21st century. Beginning with the colonial art made by Australia’s first European settlers, this volume presents a collection of clear and accessible essays by established art historians and emerging scholars alike. Engaging, clearly-written chapters provide fresh insights into the principal Australian art movements, considered from a variety of chronological, regional and thematic perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe text seeks to provide a balanced account of historical events to help readers discover the art of Australia on their own terms and draw their own conclusions. The book begins by surveying the historiography of Australian art and exploring the history of art museums in Australia. The following chapters discuss art forms such as photography, sculpture, portraiture and landscape painting, examining the practice of art in the separate colonies before Federation, and in the Commonwealth from the early 20th century to the present day. This authoritative volume covers the last 250 years of art in Australia, including the Early Colonial, High Colonial and Federation periods as well as the successive Modernist styles of the 20th century, and considers how traditional Aboriginal art has adapted and changed over the last fifty years.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Companion to Australian Art\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003eDieses Buch ist eine Einführung in die Kunst Australiens seit Ankunft der ersten Siedler mit der First Fleet im Jahr 1788. Die Beiträge stammen von renommierten Kunsthistorikern und jungen Wissenschaftlern, die ihr jeweiliges Fachgebiet fesselnd, verständlich und unvoreingenommen darstellen. Die überwiegende Zahl der Kapitel beschäftigt sich mit prägenden Epochen, die mehr oder weniger chronologisch beschrieben werden. Auf bestimmte Regionen und besondere Kunstformen, die andernfalls im weiter gefassten historischen Kontext unberücksichtigt bleiben würden, wird in eigenen Kapiteln eingegangen. \u003cp\u003eAbout the Editor vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editor’s Preface xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Introduction and Historiography 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Allen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Historiography of Australian Art 16\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMolly Duggins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Public Art Museums in Australia: A Brief History 51\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGerard Vaughan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Dwelling in Australia 79\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Early Sydney: A Land of Wonder and Delight 81\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Neville\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Art in Van Diemen’s Land 108\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Hansen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Eugene von Guérard and Colonial Art in Melbourne, 1850–1880 141\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRuth Pullin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Promised Land: Painting in Nineteenth-Century South Australia 167\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJane Hylton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Crocodiles, Bottle-Trees and Pineapple Fields: Art in Colonial Queensland 187\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGlenn R. Cooke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Subject and Object: Locating the Portrait in Nineteenth-Century Australia 210\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark De Vitis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Heidelberg School 230\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorgina Cole\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Dwelling in the World 255\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Exodus 257\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarry Pearce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Edwardian Period (1901–1918) 275\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnna Gray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Color, Commerce and the Culture of Change: Sydney Modernism, 1915–1941 299\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDenise Mimmocchi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Angry Penguins 324\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJacqui Strecker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Australian High Modernism 343\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSasha Grishin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Postwar Art: The International Context 361\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary Eagle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Starting the Sixties Art Boom 383\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Heathcote\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Avant-Gardism and the Triumph of the Postmodern: 1960–1980 402\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Haese\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Artforms and Themes 429\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Australian Sculpture, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century 431\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Hill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Between the Real and The Imagined Photography in Australia 458\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIsobel Crombie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Aboriginal Art’s Expanding Field: A New Approach 483\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilip Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Conclusion: From Postmodern to Contemporary 509\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Allen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 524\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Allen\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Master in Academic Extension at Sydney Grammar School, and National Art Critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a Trustee of the State Library of New South Wales and is the author of several books on the history of Australian art and French art in the 17th century, as well as a major postdoctoral work on early modern art theory. Previously, Allen was lecturer in Art History and Theory at the National Art School in Sydney and was an art critic for the \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Australian Art\u003c\/i\u003e is a thorough introduction to the art produced in Australia from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to the early 21st century. Beginning with the colonial art made by Australia’s first European settlers, this volume presents a collection of clear and accessible essays by established art historians and emerging scholars alike. 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