Your own land is the best : the limits of redemption in Australian colonial art

Author

McLean, Ian

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Australian journal of art. 1994, Vol. 12, 124-145, 3 ill.

ISSN

0314-6464

Abstract (en)

Focusing upon the frontier trope in the painting of John Glover, McLean examines the search for redemption in what some saw as a distant purgatory, as well as the subsequent melancholy that penetrated the Australian colonial experience. McLean addresses how a redemptive aesthetic developed in conjunction with a frontier semiology. Yet he also considers how the very failure to form a redeeming vision which he finds acknowledged by Marcus Clarke, was denied in the Impressionist pastoral arcadias. Hiding in the glare of Impressionism, he concludes, was a virulent racism, and an unconscious desire by Euro-Australians to be White Aborigines.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- Australia
• Painting
• Australia
• 1800-1900
• Landscape
• Redemption
• Views
• Glover, John, 1767-1849
• Colonial
• Great Britain
• Racism

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- Australie
• Peinture
• Australie
• 1800-1900
• Paysage
• Rédemption
• Vues
• Glover, John, 1767-1849
• Colonial (art)
• Grande-Bretagne
• Racisme

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19960101-00283008

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