Seeing the first Australians / edited by Ian Donaldson & Tamsin Donaldson
- Bib ID:
- 2706838
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Sydney : George Allen & Unwin, 1985
- 216 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0868616974 (paperback)
- 0868616893 (cased)
- Summary:
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First sight / Ian Donaldson & Tamsin Donaldson -- The first European depictions / Bernard Smith -- Reactions on Cook's voyage / Glyndwr Williams -- Savage sportsmen / James Urry -- The Darwinian perspective / D.J. Mulvaney -- Hearing the first Australians / Tamsin Donaldson -- Projections of melancholy / Margaret Maynard -- Tom Roberts' aboriginal portraits / Helen Topliss -- Thomas Dick's photographic vision / Isabel McBryde -- The popular image / Nicolas Peterson -- Ordering the landscape / Rhys Jones.
Explores early European perceptions and attitudes towards Aboriginal culture as revealed in art, photography & social science; Papers by I. Donaldson and T.J. Donaldson, B.W. Smith, G. Williams, J. Urry D.J. Mulvaney, T.J. Donaldson, M. Maynard, H. Topliss, I. McBryde, N. Peterson & R. Jones separately annotated.
- Notes:
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- Ill. on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Public opinion -- History
- Europeans -- Australia -- Attitudes -- History
- Art, Australian -- 19th century
- Race relations - Representation - Art
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Photography - Ethnographic
- Race relations - Representation - Media
- Race relations - Representation - Literature
- Australia -- Foreign public opinion, European -- Congresses
- Europe -- Race relations
- Australia
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- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1985
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