The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art explores the artistic identity of past and present Australia and includes over 200 images.

Jaynie Anderson (Edited by)

9781107601581, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2011

398 pages, 246 colour illus.
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.82 kg

'The overriding merit of [this book] is that it initiates new ways of seeing one of the finest, least known national schools of art.' The Times Literary Supplement

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.

Editor's preface
1. Introduction Jaynie Anderson
2. Special places and images on rock: 50,000 years of indigenous engagement with Australian landscapes Paul Tacon
3. Encountering an Aboriginal aesthetic from the eighteenth to the twentieth century Philip Jones
4. Home: expressions of social identity from the 1820s to 1860s Mary Eagle
5. Cultural acclimatization: Australian colonial art within the British Empire Alison Inglis
6. National life and landscape: the Heidelberg School as mythmaker 1880–1905 Ann Galbally
7. Australian artists within a wider world 1900–1920 Anne Gray
8. Print – matters Roger Butler
9. Foreign natives: Australian modernism 1915–1955 Anthony White
10. Art in central Australia: refigured ground John Carty and Alison French
11. Transformations of bark painting from the nineteenth century until today Luke Taylor
12. Coming to terms with Aboriginal art in the 1960s Howard Morphy
13. When and what was the 1960s? Andrew McNamara and Ann Stephen
14. The gift that time gave: myth and history in the Western Desert painting movement Ian McLean
15. Photography and Australia Isobel Crombie
16. Picturing self-determination: the use of photography by Australian indigenous artists Jonathan Jones
17. 'Asian art' and Australia John Clark
18. Post-provincial, still peripheral: Australian art on the global stage, 1980–2009 Anthony Gardner
19. Transnational virtuality: new media art, contemporary concerns Terence Smith
20. The cross-cultural art museum in Australia Gerard Vaughan
21. Buying and selling Australian art: a brief historical survey Jane Clark and Wally Caruana.

Subject Areas: Painting & paintings [AFC], Art styles not defined by date [ACB], History of art / art & design styles [AC]