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Australian pastoral : the making of a white landscape / Jeanette Hoorn
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759.994 HOO
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Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press
Year:
2007
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303 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
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9781920731540
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Includes list of paintings.
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Book
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"maps the tradition of pastoral painting in Australia, charting its entanglement with the great pastoral settlement of the country." --Cover."'Australian Pastoral' is a radical history of the pastoral landscape in Australian painting. As a primary means
through which white settlement was described and legitimised, the pastoral was transcendent in European Australian art from the late eighteent
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Contents:
1. Ante-pastoral: friendship and betrayal in New South Wales -- 2. Pastoral beginnings: advertising the land -- 3. The failure of civic humanism in Tasmania -- 4. Is it cricket? Pastoral and Georgic in South Australia -- 5. An embarrassment of riches:
Von Guerard's dilemma and the homestead landscape -- 6. Labour and eros: two versions of pastoral in Heidelberg School painting -- 7. How pastoral capitalism made the Heidelberg School -- 8. Picture and verse: Europe's endowment in the landscape -- 9. A pastoral cult: social Darwinism and white supremacism -- 10. Et in Arcadia ego.
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