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Группа авторов. A Companion to Australian Art
WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ART HISTORY
A Companion to Australian Art
Contents
List of Table
List of Illustrations
Guide
Pages
1 Introduction
I – Introduction and Historiography
II – Dwelling in Australia
III – Dwelling in the World
IV – Artforms and Themes
Conclusion
2 Historiography of Australian Art
Origins of Art Historical Writing in Australia
Modern Engagements
Contemporary Currents
Reassessments of Colonial Art
Reassessments of Australian Modernism
References
Further Reading
Notes
3 Public Art Museums in Australia: A Brief History
The Nineteenth Century Background
The Early Colonial Period
The National Gallery of Victoria
Public Art Museology in the Other Australian Colonies
The Federation Period
The Felton Bequest and the NGV
The Debate on Modernism
A New Exhibitions Culture
New Projects in the Twenty-first Century
A National Gallery for Australia
The Contemporary Indigenous Art Movement, and Its Introduction to Public Art Museums
Regional Galleries, and Private Initiatives
University Art Galleries
A New Phenomenon: The Rise of the Privately Funded Gallery
Conclusion
Notes
4 Early Sydney: A Land of Wonder and Delight
Notes
5 Art in Van Diemen’s Land
Prologue
Exploration
Settlement
Convict Artists
Portraiture
Landscape
Women
Visitors
Conclusion
Notes
6 Eugene von Guérard and Colonial Art in Melbourne, 1850–1880
Gold
Melbourne in the Mid-1850s
The Melbourne Exhibition, 1854
German Artists and Scientists in Melbourne
Melbourne, von Guérard and the Tree Fern
Pastoral Portraits: Possession and Dispossession
Scientific and Exploratory Expeditions
Official Recognition of Colonial Art in Melbourne
The Impact of Buvelot’s Arrival
The 1870s
The Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880
The End of an Era
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Further Reading
Notes
7 The Promised Land: Painting in Nineteenth-Century South Australia
The Arrival of William Light
The Arrival of John Michael Skipper
The Arrival of Martha Berkeley and Theresa Walker
S.T. Gill and G.F. Angas
The First Group Exhibitions
The Arrival of Alexander Schramm and John Crossland
The South Australian Society of Arts and the Late 1850s
The 1860s and 1870s
The 1880s and Early 1890s
Notes
8 Crocodiles, Bottle-Trees And Pineapple Fields: Art in Colonial Queensland
Beyond the Fence-line
Crocodiles: Danger in the Tropics
They Called-not Queensland Home: Traveling Artists
Artists and the Development of Infrastructure
Establishing Art: The Queensland Art Society and Queensland Art Gallery
A Modest Showing: The Queensland International Exhibition 1897
Conflict and the New Art Society
Toowoomba and the Darling Downs
The Tropical North
Bottle Trees and the Western Plains
Flora’s Realm
Not Quiet the Center: Central Queensland
Pineapple Fields: Agriculture and the Coastal Margins
The Arts of Commerce: Furniture, Metalwork and Ceramics
Expressing Individual Status
Photography: An Art for Everyone
Towards the New Century
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
9 Subject and Object: Locating the Portrait in Nineteenth-Century Australia
Identity and Representation in Australian Indigenous Cultures
Early Colonial Portraiture
Gold Rush
Federation
References
10 The Heidelberg School
Painting Outdoors
Selectors, Bushmen, and Tourists
Exhibiting Impressions
An Australian School of Art
References
Further Reading
Notes
11 Exodus
12 The Edwardian Period (1901–1918)
Australian Artists in Europe
Portraits: The Continuing Tradition
Portraits of the “New Woman”
Working-class Portraits
Landscapes
Formalism and Modernism
Federation Landscapes
Aboriginal Art
The Spirit of the Land
A Celebration of Federation
The Noble Gum and Wattle
Crepuscular Landscapes and Atmospheric Effects
The Beach
City Life
Watercolor Painting
War Art (1916 Onwards)
Large Battle Compositions
Women Artists and the War
Exhibitions
End of an Era
Notes
13 Color, Commerce and the Culture of Change: Sydney Modernism, 1915–1941
Color in Art
Margaret Preston: Modernity and the Decorative Vision
Commerce and Color Culture
Marketing the Modern
The City and the Modernist Mind
Landscape as Modern Symbol of Nation
“A New Realm of Visual Experience”57
Notes
14 Angry Penguins
References
15 Australian High Modernism
References
16 Postwar Art: The International Context
Consumer Culture
The World’s Art Centers
Abstract and Figurative
Melbourne
Sydney
An Ambition Difficult to Achieve
A Baby-boomer’s Childhood Encounter with Art of the Late 1950s – Early 1960s
War, Loss of Empire, and the Rise of the US. Isolation
Fear
Prosperity, Suburbia, Gender Roles, the “System”, Immigration and Prejudice
Postwar Nationalism
Pros and Cons of Art in the Mainstream
References
17 Starting the Sixties Art Boom
References
Notes
18 Avant-Gardism and the Triumph of the Postmodern: 1960–1980
References
Further Reading
19 Australian Sculpture, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Prelude
The First Public Statue
Other Early Monuments
Made in Australia, 1890s–1930s
Modernism
Civic Sculpture
Mildura Prize
Steel
Post-Object
After Post-Object
Monumentality Revived
References
Further Reading
20 Between the Real and The Imagined Photography in Australia
Photography in Australia: Introduction
Mirror with a Memory: Early Photography in Australia
Pioneering Efforts
Amateur Experiments
Expansive Views
Picturesque Imaginings
Pictorialist Art
The National Spirit
Body Culture
Émigré Artists
Fashionable Views
Story-tellers
Signs of the Times
Counter-Cultures
The Personal as Political
From Land to Landscape
The Thing in Itself: Tradition in Transition
The 1980s: Postmodernism and Beyond
“A Dumb Recording Device”: Performative and Conceptual Practices
Something More: The Rise of Indigenous Photography
A Sense of Place
Post-Photography? The Digital Revolution
Materiality and Process
The Art of Imagination
New Documentary
Subjective Realism
Modern Life
Playing Up: Performance, Installation and Assemblage
Blak Art
Notes
21 Aboriginal Art’s Expanding Field: A New Approach
Notes
22 Conclusion: From Postmodern to Contemporary
Political and Cultural Situation
New Exhibition Formats
Leading Artists of the Twentieth Century Fin-de-Siècle
Artists Who Matured in the 1980s and 1990s
Notes
INDEX
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