Art in Australia: From Colonization to Postmodernism

by Christopher Allen

Book Overview

Does Australian art have a history or is it just a series of belated footnotes to European and American artistic development in the last two centuries? Does it always express some essential "Australian sensibility"? Christopher Allen's book argues that Australian art does have a history of its own from the beginning, not because of an inherent "Australianness," but because of the objective conditions of a society transplanted to a remote and strange...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500203016
• ISBN13: 9780500203019
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.2"