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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