Christopher Allen is Senior Master in Academic Extension at Sydney Grammar School, and National Art Critic for The Australian. He is a Trustee of the State Library of New South Wales and is the author of several books on the history of Australian art and French art in the 17th century, as well as a major postdoctoral work on early modern art theory. Previously, Allen was lecturer in Art History and Theory at the National Art School in Sydney and was an art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review.

• About the Editor viiNotes on Contributors ixList of Figures xvSeries Editor’s Preface xixPart I Introduction and Historiography 11 Introduction 3Christopher Allen2 Historiography of Australian Art 16Molly Duggins3 Public Art Museums in Australia: A Brief History 51Gerard VaughanPart II Dwelling in Australia 794 Early Sydney: A Land of Wonder and Delight 81Richard Neville5 Art in Van Diemen’s Land 108David Hansen6 Eugene von Guérard and Colonial Art in Melbourne, 1850–1880 141Ruth Pullin7 The Promised Land: Painting in Nineteenth-Century South Australia 167Jane Hylton8 Crocodiles, Bottle-Trees and Pineapple Fields: Art in Colonial Queensland 187Glenn R. Cooke9 Subject and Object: Locating the Portrait in Nineteenth-Century Australia 210Mark De Vitis10 The Heidelberg School 230Georgina ColePart III Dwelling in the World 25511 Exodus 257Barry Pearce12 The Edwardian Period (1901–1918) 275Anna Gray13 Color, Commerce and the Culture of Change: Sydney Modernism, 1915–1941 299Denise Mimmocchi14 Angry Penguins 324Jacqui Strecker15 Australian High Modernism 343Sasha Grishin16 Postwar Art: The International Context 361Mary Eagle17 Starting the Sixties Art Boom 383Christopher Heathcote18 Avant-Gardism and the Triumph of the Postmodern: 1960–1980 402Richard HaesePart IV Artforms and Themes 42919 Australian Sculpture, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century 431Michael Hill20 Between the Real and The Imagined Photography in Australia 458Isobel Crombie21 Aboriginal Art’s Expanding Field: A New Approach 483Philip Jones22 Conclusion: From Postmodern to Contemporary 509Christopher AllenIndex 524