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Seeing the first Australians

Title
Seeing the first Australians / edited by Ian Donaldson & Tamsin Donaldson.
Publication
Sydney ; Boston : G. Allen & Unwin, 1985.

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Additional Authors
  • Donaldson, Ian.
  • Donaldson, Tamsin.
  • Australian National University. Humanities Research Centre.
Description
216 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
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.
Alternative Title
Australia and the European imagination.
Subject
  • Aboriginal Australians > Public opinion > Congresses
  • Aboriginal Australians > Pictorial works > Congresses
  • Public opinion > Europe > Congresses
  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Aboriginal Australians > Public opinion
  • Public opinion
  • Public opinion, European
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Geschichte
  • Iwi taketake
  • Australia > Foreign public opinion, European > Congresses
  • Australia
  • Europe
  • Aborigines
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Note
  • A second vol. of papers derived from a conference held at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University, Canberra, May 5-10, 1981. The first vol. has title: Australia and the European imagination.
  • Illustrated lining papers.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 0868616893
  • 9780868616896
  • 0868616974
  • 9780868616971
LCCN
84070762
OCLC
  • ocm13076910
  • 13076910
  • SCSB-1167943
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library