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Royal Academy of Arts (Hg.): Australia, Royal Academy Publications, London 2013, Ausst. Kat., ISBN 9781907533457

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Table of Contents

HRH The Prince of Wales: Foreword -11-

Christopher Le Brun: President's Foreword -12-

Allan Myers: Chairman's Foreword -15-

Map -20-

Kathleen Soriano: Australia: An Introduction -22-

Thomas Keneally: Dead Heart / Live Heart -30-

Chronology -36-

Wally Caruana, Franchesca Cubillo: Country: Aboriginal Art -40-

Ron Redford: Land and Landscape: The Colonial Encounter 1800-80 -90-

Anne Gray: Art Nation: Australian Landscape 1880-1920 -146-

Deborah Hart: Australian Landscape: Pathways into the Modern World 1920-50 -184-

Daniel Thomas: Elizabethan Post-colonial 1950-2013 -226-

Artists' Biographies -289-

Notes -305-

Select Bibliography -308-

Leners to the Exhibition -313-

Photographic Acknowledgements -314-

Index -315-

Cover Text

This landmark book charts the development of Australian art, from early Aboriginal paintings and those of the early colonial settlers to the work of later immigrants and today's artists that reflects their culturally diverse influences. Spanning over 200 years from 1800 to the present day, this major survey sheds light on an intense period of change in Australian culture and society through such powerful paintings as Sidney Nolan's outlaw Ned Kelly, as well as the highly original work by artists such a Rover Thomas, Tracey Moffatt, Fiona Hall and Vernon Ah Kee. The art of this continent is closely linked to its landscape. Australian artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, have long found inspiration in ist natural beauty, distinctive light and sheer diversity. By evolving their own individual responses to the city, the beach and the bush in paintings, prints, drawings, watercolours, bark paintings, phographs and film, they reveal the profound influence of the Australian land and landscape.