Australian Pastoral: The Making of a White Landscape

Australian Pastoral: The Making of a White Landscape
ISBN-10
1920731547
ISBN-13
9781920731540
Category
Art
Pages
303
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Fremantle Press
Author
Jeanette Hoorn

Description

Australian Pastoral is a radical history of the pastoral landscape in Australian painting. As a primary means through which white settlement was described and legitimised, the pastoral was transcendent in European Australian art from the late eighteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. This book shows how pastoralism displaced all in its path, and how the pastoral landscape became a special art form in Australia and the primary means through which 'whiteness' and the taming of Australia was celebrated in painting. The book traces the history of pastoral painting through to the emergence in recent times of a black 'pastoral' landscape painting.

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