White Aborigines: Identity Politics in Australia Art

Authors

Ian A. McLean, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

68370

Publication Details

McLean, I. A. (1998). White Aborigines: Identity Politics in Australia Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Abstract

This book discusses how the relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal 'Australia' were imagined in Australian painting over the previous two hundred years. My aim is to do more than trace a particular theme in the history of Australian painting; it is to tell a story of the invention of an Australian subjectivity.