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Australian pastoral : the making of a white landscape / Jeanette Hoorn

Record no:

64150

Call no:

759.994 HOO

Author:

Hoorn, Jeanette

Publisher:

Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press

Year:

2007

Description:

303 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Landscape painting - Australia - History;

Isbn:

9781920731540

Notes:

Includes list of paintings.

Type:

Book

Abstract:

"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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Result	Links	Location	Library	Shelf no	Status	Year	Volume	Copy
1		History	Western Australian Museum	759.994 HOO	On Shelf