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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 colonisation, McLean traces the representation of indigeneity through the history of Australian art, and the concomitant invention of an Australian subjectivity. He argues that the colonising culture invested far more in indigenous aspects of the country and its inhabitants than it has been willing to admit. McLean considers artists and their work within a cultural context, and also provides a contemporary theoretical and critical context for his claims.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900

• Full title: White Aborigines
• Subtitle: Identity Politics in Australian Art
• Author: Ian McLean
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780521120678
• ISBN: 0521120675
• ID: 02022819
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 320 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2009

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