Seeing the first Australians
By: edited by Ian Donaldson & Tamsin Donaldson.
Contributors: Donaldson, Ian.; Donaldson, Tamsin.; Australian National University. Humanities Research Centre.
Publisher: G. Allen & Unwin
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Sydney; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Public opinion -- Congresses.; Aboriginal Australians -- Pictorial works -- Congresses.; Public opinion -- Europe -- Congresses.; Australia -- Foreign public opinion, European -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Australia and the European imagination.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
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.