Series: Studies in Art Historiography

This book aims to redefine Australia’s earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category Aboriginal art, tracing the term’s use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Lowish reveals how the idea of Aboriginal art developed in the European imagination, manifested in early literature, and became a distinct...

Addressed to students of the image—both art historians and students of visual studies—Time in the History of Art investigates the history and nature of time in a variety of different environments and media, as well as the temporal potential of objects. Essays will analyse topics such as the disparities of power that privilege certain forms of temporality above others, the...