Colonial Painters 1788-1880
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Australia's earliest artistic voices speak across centuries in Colonial Painters 1788–1880, a richly authoritative survey that chronicles the formative era of Australian visual art from the moment of European settlement through to the twilight of the colonial period. James Gleeson, one of Australia's most distinguished art critics and painters, presents a sweeping panorama of the artists who first committed the vast, alien landscape of the continent to canvas — men and women who grappled with an unfamiliar light, an untamed wilderness, and the challenge of forging a visual identity for a nascent nation. Part of the prestigious Australian Painting Studio Series, the work details the careers, techniques, and cultural contexts of painters whose works now stand as irreplaceable historical documents, capturing a world in rapid and irreversible transformation. Gleeson's scholarship is both rigorous and deeply humanistic, illuminating the social and political forces that shaped artistic production in colonial Australia — from the convict era's raw utility to the Romantic ambitions of a growing settler society. His prose carries the authority of a practitioner who understands the painter's instinct as well as the historian's obligation to context and truth. Under the editorial guidance of John Henshaw, this volume situates colonial Australian painting within the broader currents of nineteenth-century Western art, arguing persuasively for its unique and undervalued place in the global canon. For anyone who has ever stood before an ochre-dusted colonial landscape and wondered what compelled its creator, this volume offers the most compelling of answers.
Author: James Gleeson
Format: Paperback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Australia's earliest artistic voices speak across centuries in Colonial Painters 1788–1880, a richly authoritative survey that chronicles the formative era of Australian visual art from the moment of European settlement through to the twilight of the colonial period. James Gleeson, one of Australia's most distinguished art critics and painters, presents a sweeping panorama of the artists who first committed the vast, alien landscape of the continent to canvas — men and women who grappled with an unfamiliar light, an untamed wilderness, and the challenge of forging a visual identity for a nascent nation. Part of the prestigious Australian Painting Studio Series, the work details the careers, techniques, and cultural contexts of painters whose works now stand as irreplaceable historical documents, capturing a world in rapid and irreversible transformation. Gleeson's scholarship is both rigorous and deeply humanistic, illuminating the social and political forces that shaped artistic production in colonial Australia — from the convict era's raw utility to the Romantic ambitions of a growing settler society. His prose carries the authority of a practitioner who understands the painter's instinct as well as the historian's obligation to context and truth. Under the editorial guidance of John Henshaw, this volume situates colonial Australian painting within the broader currents of nineteenth-century Western art, arguing persuasively for its unique and undervalued place in the global canon. For anyone who has ever stood before an ochre-dusted colonial landscape and wondered what compelled its creator, this volume offers the most compelling of answers.