White Aborigines: Identity Politics in Australian Art

by Ian L. McLean

Book Overview

This book investigates how identities have been constructed in Australian art from 1788 onwards. Ian McLean shows that Australian art, and the writing of its history, has, since settlement, been in a dialogue (although often submerged) with Aboriginal art and culture; and that this dialogue is inextricably interwoven with the struggle to find an identity in the antipodes. Beginning with a discussion of how Australia was imagined by Europeans before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521120675
• ISBN13: 9780521120678
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"