British art for Australia, 1860-1953 : the acquisition of artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian national galleries /
Traditional postcolonial scholarship on art and imperialism emphasises tensions between colonising cores and subjugated peripheries. The ties between London and British white settler colonies have been comparatively neglected. Artworks not only reveal the controlling intentions of imperialist artist...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | British art. Histories and interpretations since 1700.
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Table of Contents:
- British art for Australia, 1860-1953 : an introduction
- 'Work that would meet the taste of the colonists' : British art for antipodean Britons
- 'The civilization of the people' : Australian national galleries and civic humanism
- 'A more extended area for English art' : the British world and the imperial art market
- 'The best equipped agent, with as free a hand ': advisors and selectors of British art for Australia
- 'A sop to Cerberus' : collecting the British old masters in Australia
- 'One of the many colonial delusions' : Australian national galleries and British landscape painting
- 'No highly desirable Pre-Raphaelite picture should be spared from home' : the antipodean pursuit of a British acme
- 'The gap that is steadily widening' : the acquisition of 'insular' British modernism by Australian national galleries, 1900-1953.