I. Introduction and Historiography. 1. Introduction / Christopher Allen ; 2. Historiography of Australian art / Molly Duggins ; 3. Public art museums in Australia: a brief history / Gerard Vaughan -- II. Dwelling in Australia. 4. Early Sydney: a land of wonder and delight / Richard Neville ; 5. Art in Van Diemen's Land / David Hansen ; 6. Eugene von Guérard and Colonial Art in Melbourne, 1850-1880 / Ruth Pullin ; 7. The promised land: painting in nineteenth-century South Australia / Jane Hylton ; 8. Crocodiles, bottle-trees and pineapple fields: art in colonial Queensland / Glenn R. Cooke ; 9. Subject and object: locating the portrait in nineteenth-century Australia / Mark De Vitis ; 10. The Heidelberg School / Georgina Cole -- III. Dwelling in the World. 11. Exodus / Barry Pearce ; 12. The Edwardian period (1901-1918) / Anna Gray ; 13. Color, commerce and the culture of change: Sydney modernism, 1915-1941 / Denise Mimmocchi ; 14. Angry Penguins / Jacqui Strecker ; 15. Australian high modernism / Sasha Grishin ; 16. Postwar art: the International context / Mary Eagle ; 17. Starting the sixties art boom / Christopher Heathcote ; 18. Avant-Gardism and the triumph of the Postmodern: 1960-1980 / Richard Haese -- IV. Artforms and Themes. 19. Australian sculpture, nineteenth and twentieth century / Michael Hill ; 20. Between the real and the imagined photography in Australia / Isobel Crombie ; 21. Aboriginal art's expanding field: a new approach / Philip Jones ; 22. Conclusion: From postmodern to contemporary / Christopher Allen.
Summary:
"Art in the Australian continent has two very different stories, which have become intertwined in recent times but can never be reduced to a single narrative. The first of these, of course, is the story of the art produced by the original inhabitants of the land, who came here tens of thousands of years before the Neolithic Revolution and the beginning of urban life in the northern hemisphere, and whose way of life seems to have remained remarkably stable, all but untouched by the history of the rest of humanity, until the beginning of British settlement at the end of the eighteenth century. The Aborigines are constantly present to varying degrees in the art and the consciousness of European Australians throughout the history of modern Australia, and so appear in many of the chapters of this book."-- Provided by publisher.
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