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British Art for Australia, 1860-1953: The Acquisition of Artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian National Galleries

British Art for Australia, 1860-1953: The Acquisition of Artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian National Galleries

Potter, Matthew C.

Paperback

Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations Since 1700

Art History

ISBN10: 103247579X
ISBN13: 9781032475790
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 21 2023
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.85 Depth: 9.69
Language: English

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 artists in their creation but also the uses to which they were put by others in their afterlives. In many cases they were used to fuel contests over cultural identity which expose a mixture of rifts and consensuses within the British ranks which were frequently assumed to be homogeneous. British Art for Australia, 1860-1953: The Acquisition of Artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian National Galleries represents the first systematic and comparative study of collecting British art in Australia between 1860 and 1953 using the archives of the Australian national galleries and other key Australian and UK institutions. Multiple audiences in the disciplines of art history, cultural history, and museology are addressed by analysing how Australians used British art to carve a distinct identity, which artworks were desirable, economically attainable, and why, and how the acquisition of British art fits into a broader cultural context of the British world.

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