Visualising Australia
Subtitle: images, icons, imaginations
By: Renate Brosch, Kylie Crane (eds.)
Series: Konzepte, Orientierungen, Abhandlungen, Lektüren, Australien-Studien (KOALAS) -- 11.; Konzepte, Orientierungen, Abhandlungen, Lektüren, Australien-Studien (KOALAS) -- 11.
Publisher: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Trier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9783868215519
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Mass media and culture; Art and society; Art; National characteristics, Australian, in art; Kulturelle Identität; Visualisierung; Interdisziplinarität
Description: This volume 'Visualising Australia: images, icons, imaginations' comprises a collection of ten papers given at the thirteenth conference of the Association for Australian Studies at the University of Stuttgart in September 2012, which are supplemented by a comprehensive introduction to Visual Culture Studies and to Australian Visualities. The contributions probe and critique visual images that have become lodged in cultural memory as powerful vehicles of national identity. Paintings, photographs, mixed media, maps, documentaries, advertisements, cartoons and literary images form the subject matter. Together, the contributions offer historical depth, a breadth of disciplinary backgrounds and draw on Australian and international perspectives. This volume thus makes a timely contribution to Visual Culture Studies and Australian Studies alike.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Visualising Australia : an introduction / Renate Brosch and Kylie Crane; title: Seeing Australia : learning and unlearning the visible world / Bill Ashcroft; title: Aboriginal people in chains / Corinna Erckenbrecht and Anna Haebich; title: Speculative geographers : imagining the Australian continent in the 1830s / Matthew Graves and Elizabeth Rechniewski; title: Hanging paintings : Aboriginal art, primitivism, and the quest for authenticity / Mitchell Rolls; title: Back to country : Leah King-Smith's double-exposed photography in the Pattern of Connection series and indigenous landscape / Russell West-Pavlov; title: Images matter : Richard Flanagan, Richard Wastell and materializations of Tasmania / Laura A. White; title: Aussie cows and asylum seekers : cartooning about two key political issues / Farida Fozdar; title: The ultimate metaphor : cane toads as Australian icon / Therese-Marie Mayer; title: "Seeing Skippy?" : visualising and materialising the kangaroo / Katrina Schlunke; title: Incontinence : Australia and the archipelago / Paul Carter.