Author

Publication

1986 - Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Australia

Language

English

Word Count

53,250 words, Guess

Page Count

213 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100195546636
  • ISBN-139780195546637
  • Goodreads4092467
  • LibraryThing352245
  • Library of Congress Control Number85228443
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC994.402
  • LCCNX590.A3 N494 1986
  • LCCDU177

Description

A history of ideas focussing on the process by which Enlightenment theory of social and economic progress dominated the art and literature of the colonial elite and justified the domination of Aboriginal people in terms of a natural law of economic growth and a theory of classical history; analyses the perception and depiction of Aborigines by colonists, explorers and artists.

Subjects

Topics

In artHistoryModern ArtsNationalismCivilizationAustralian ArtsNeoclassicism (Art)

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