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The blot on the landscape: Fred Williams and Australian art history
2014
Journal of Art Historiography
A defining shift in Australian art historiography occurred with the publishing of Bernard Smith's 1980 Boyer Lecture series, The Spectre of Truganini. Seeing the exclusion of an Aboriginal presence in Australian art through the ideas of Freud, the history of Australian art, Smith proposed, was a history of repression. After Smith, Ian McLean has developed the most detailed account of the history of Australian art according to this methodology. This essay examines the work of the modern
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