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Australian Pastoral: The Making of a White Landscape
by Jeanette Hoorn
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- About the Book
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Australian Pastoral: The Making of a White Landscape maps the tradition of pastoral painting in Australia, charting its entanglement with the great pastoral settlement of the country. In a new interpretation of contact history, Jeanette Hoorn argues that the twin strategies of friendship and betrayal were used to defeat black sovereignty over the land and that these entered the narrative of the new nation’s artists, from Joseph Lycett to Tom Roberts to Russell Drysdale. Pastoral capitalism became the means by which the country was won, while the ancient frameworks of the pastoral were used to celebrate the pleasures of land ownership and honour the rewards of labour. And in the twentieth century, with the emergence of modernism and fascism, the nation was reawakened to the values of rural Australia — in an excess of what Hoorn terms pastoraphilia. But with the defeat of European fascism the pastoral landscape lost its currency and in its place came a new pastoral landscape in the art of the great black painters of the outback.
- Categories
- Current Affairs, Culture & Social History, Art & Photography, History
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- ISBN13
- 9781920731540
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- C Format (230 x 152mm)
- Pages
- 304
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