Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Details

McLean, I. "The mysterious corresspondence between Charles Baudelaire and Tommy McRae: Reimagining modernism in Austalia as a contact zone." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 13 (2013): 71-90.

Abstract

By performing a few imaginative leaps between two nineteenth-centurycontact zones, Paris and Yackandandah (in Victoria, Australia), this essay tracescorrespondences between Charles Baudelaire's ideas and the ink drawings of theKwat Kwat sketcher of manners, Yackaduna, also recorded as Warra-euea andTommy Barnes, but known to posterity as Tommy McRae.

RIS ID

88968

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