The course of empire
Subtitle: neo-classical culture in New South Wales, 1788-1860
By: Robert Dixon.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Melbourne; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Arts, Australian -- Australia -- New South Wales -- 18th century.; Arts, Australian -- Australia -- New South Wales -- 19th century.; Neoclassicism (Art) -- Australia -- New South Wales.; Nationalism -- Australia.; New South Wales -- In art.
Description: A history of ideas focussing on the process by which Enlightenment theory of social and economic progress dominated the art and literature of the colonial elite and justified the domination of Aboriginal people in terms of a natural law of economic growth and a theory of classical history; analyses the perception and depiction of Aborigines by colonists, explorers and artists.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 201-308.
Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 1984.
Includes index.