Table of Contents
About the Editor vii
Notes on Contributors ix
List of Figures xv
Series Editor’s Preface xix
Part I Introduction and Historiography 1
1 Introduction 3 Christopher Allen
2 Historiography of Australian Art 16 Molly Duggins
3 Public Art Museums in Australia: A Brief History 51 Gerard Vaughan
Part II Dwelling in Australia 79
4 Early Sydney: A Land of Wonder and Delight 81 Richard Neville
5 Art in Van Diemen’s Land 108 David Hansen
6 Eugene von Guérard and Colonial Art in Melbourne, 1850–1880 141 Ruth Pullin
7 The Promised Land: Painting in Nineteenth-Century South Australia 167 Jane Hylton
8 Crocodiles, Bottle-Trees and Pineapple Fields: Art in Colonial Queensland 187 Glenn R. Cooke
9 Subject and Object: Locating the Portrait in Nineteenth-Century Australia 210 Mark De Vitis
10 The Heidelberg School 230 Georgina Cole
Part III Dwelling in the World 255
11 Exodus 257 Barry Pearce
12 The Edwardian Period (1901–1918) 275 Anna Gray
13 Color, Commerce and the Culture of Change: Sydney Modernism, 1915–1941 299 Denise Mimmocchi
14 Angry Penguins 324 Jacqui Strecker
15 Australian High Modernism 343 Sasha Grishin
16 Postwar Art: The International Context 361 Mary Eagle
17 Starting the Sixties Art Boom 383 Christopher Heathcote
18 Avant-Gardism and the Triumph of the Postmodern: 1960–1980 402 Richard Haese
Part IV Artforms and Themes 429
19 Australian Sculpture, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century 431 Michael Hill
20 Between the Real and The Imagined Photography in Australia 458 Isobel Crombie
21 Aboriginal Art’s Expanding Field: A New Approach 483 Philip Jones
22 Conclusion: From Postmodern to Contemporary 509 Christopher Allen
Index 524