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Table of ContentsAbout the Editor vii
Notes on Contributors ix
List of Figures xv
Series Editor’s Preface xix
Part I Introduction and Historiography 1
1 Introduction 3
Christopher Allen
2 Historiography of Australian Art 16
Molly Duggins
3 Public Art Museums in Australia: A Brief History 51
Gerard Vaughan
Part II Dwelling in Australia 79
4 Early Sydney: A Land of Wonder and Delight 81
Richard Neville
5 Art in Van Diemen’s Land 108
David Hansen
6 Eugene von Guérard and Colonial Art in Melbourne, 1850–1880 141
Ruth Pullin
7 The Promised Land: Painting in Nineteenth-Century South Australia 167
Jane Hylton
8 Crocodiles, Bottle-Trees and Pineapple Fields: Art in Colonial Queensland 187
Glenn R. Cooke
9 Subject and Object: Locating the Portrait in Nineteenth-Century Australia 210
Mark De Vitis
10 The Heidelberg School 230
Georgina Cole
Part III Dwelling in the World 255
11 Exodus 257
Barry Pearce
12 The Edwardian Period (1901–1918) 275
Anna Gray
13 Color, Commerce and the Culture of Change: Sydney Modernism, 1915–1941 299
Denise Mimmocchi
14 Angry Penguins 324
Jacqui Strecker
15 Australian High Modernism 343
Sasha Grishin
16 Postwar Art: The International Context 361
Mary Eagle
17 Starting the Sixties Art Boom 383
Christopher Heathcote
18 Avant-Gardism and the Triumph of the Postmodern: 1960–1980 402
Richard Haese
Part IV Artforms and Themes 429
19 Australian Sculpture, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century 431
Michael Hill
20 Between the Real and The Imagined Photography in Australia 458
Isobel Crombie
21 Aboriginal Art’s Expanding Field: A New Approach 483
Philip Jones
22 Conclusion: From Postmodern to Contemporary 509
Christopher Allen
Index 524
