The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art (Hardcover)

Editor's preface; 1. Introduction Jaynie Anderson; 2. Special places and images on rock: 50,000 years of indigenous engagement with Australian landscapes Paul Tacon; 3. Encountering an Aboriginal aesthetic from the eighteenth to the twentieth century Philip Jones; 4. Home: expressions of social identity from the 1820s to 1860s Mary Eagle; 5. Cultural acclimatization: Australian colonial art within the British Empire Alison Inglis; 6. National life and landscape: the Heidelberg School as mythmaker 1880?1905 Ann Galbally; 7. Australian artists within a wider world 1900?1920 Anne Gray; 8. Print ? matters Roger Butler; 9. Foreign natives: Australian modernism 1915?1955 Anthony White; 10. Art in central Australia: refigured ground John Carty and Alison French; 11. Transformations of bark painting from the nineteenth century until today Luke Taylor; 12. Coming to terms with Aboriginal art in the 1960s Howard Morphy; 13. When and what was the 1960s? Andrew McNamara and Ann Stephen; 14. The gift that time gave: myth and history in the Western Desert painting movement Ian McLean; 15. Photography and Australia Isobel Crombie; 16. Picturing self-determination: the use of photography by Australian indigenous artists Jonathan Jones; 17. 'Asian art' and Australia John Clark; 18. Post-provincial, still peripheral: Australian art on the global stage, 1980?2009 Anthony Gardner; 19. Transnational virtuality: new media art, contemporary concerns Terence Smith; 20. The cross-cultural art museum in Australia Gerard Vaughan; 21. Buying and selling Australian art: a brief historical survey Jane Clark and Wally Caruana.