Paradise Post-Colonialised?
| dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage | 47 | |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage | 64 | |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.volume | 40 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lichterfeld, Imke | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Bischoff, Eva | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-10T13:36:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-07-10T13:36:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The beach resort Rickett’s Point in Melbourne inspired Impressionist artists like the English immigrant Charles Conder to create scenes of family outings, picnics, and shell collecting. Conder was part of the ‘Heidelberg School’, consisting of painters in a small village (now a suburb of Melbourne) which is named after the picturesque Baden town. Their aim was to catch a motif plein air; they found beauty outside and claimed to paint its true nature: “we will do our best to put only the truth down, and only as much as we feel sure of seeing” (Roberts, Conder, Streeton). Painting Australian landscapes and creating mesmerising seascapes, they visually framed the nation of Australia creating new ‘Australian art’. They display both modernist aspects of progress through industrialisation as well as leisure and nature. Yet, their paintings could be labelled a “tale of a European culture in a non-European land” (Dunlap) because European-trained artists like Tom Roberts and Conder, as well as Arthur Streeton established this type of art in Australia: Painters set up artists’ colonies and caught the seaside with both an imperial and a new post-colonial, nationalistic gaze upholding an illusion that includes an erasure of Australian indigenous life. This article analyses how the ‘Australian Impressionists’ created a (post-)colonial, Australian self-positioned national painting style. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.35515/zfa/asj.40/2024.04 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3518 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.relation.journal | Zeitschrift für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Journal | |
| dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | |
| dc.subject.ddc | ddc:700 | |
| dc.subject.field | australianstudies | |
| dc.subject.field | arthistory | |
| dc.subject.field | postcolonial | |
| dc.title | Paradise Post-Colonialised? | |
| dc.title.alternative | A Perpetual Idealist Gaze at the Australian Seaside | |
| dc.title.specialissue | Australian Seascapes | |
| dc.type | article | |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |