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A rage for curiosity : visualising Australia 1788-1830 / Richard Neville.
Record no.:
6460
Author:
Neville, Richard Anthony John.;
State Library of New South Wales;
Publisher:
Sydney :: State Library of New South Wales Press,
Year:
1997.
Series:
Flinders Collection
Description:
96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
State Library of New South Wales Exhibitions.;
Art, Australian - Exhibitions.;
Art, Modern - Exhibitions.;
Art, Australian - Social aspects.;
Art, Australian - 18th century Exhibitions.;
Art - Australia Social aspects.;
Art and society - Australia.;
Art - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.) Exhibitions.;
Natural history - Australia.;
Notes:
Art works held by the Mitchell and Dixon Libraries of the State Library of New South Wales.
Includes bibliographical references and index.Noel Dan
Gift ;
2023.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0731066103 :;
Abstract:
Examination of the visual representation of the Aboriginal people in the early colonial period; historical context of the collection of Aboriginal objects and relics discussed; intellectual and artistic references; includes artists - Lewin, Watling,
Revenet, Petit, Arago, Browne, Lycett, Earle, Rodius, Carmichael; modes of representation - classicism and caricature; use of images in official histories and popular press; use of images in colonial discourse.
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