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dc.contributor.authorFindlay, Elisabeth
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-27T01:24:15Z
dc.date.available2019-02-27T01:24:15Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.issn1368-8790
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13688790.2013.799031
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/173546
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the production and market for portraits of Aborigines in early colonial New South Wales. The discussion centers on a group of prints published in Sydney in 1836 under the title A Series of Twelve Profile Portraits of Aborigines of New South Wales. Various versions of these portraits were issued over several years and it will be argued that the changes made to each successive edition increasingly pandered to the prejudices of settler society. The paper will propose that the first prints, in which the artist and the sitter had actually met, are relatively sensitive and are an example of how the Aborigines negotiated a place within colonial Sydney, even to the extent of using the print market to advance their own celebrity status. When, however, the original images were appropriated and altered by later artists, racist overtones came to the fore and we witness the harsh colonial realities of the Aborigines losing any vestiges of control over how they were depicted.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom2
dc.relation.ispartofpageto27
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPostcolonial Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume16
dc.subject.fieldofresearchArt Theory and Criticism not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCultural Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode190199
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1606
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2002
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2103
dc.subject.keywordsPortraits
dc.subject.keywordsAborigines
dc.subject.keywordsNew South Wales
dc.subject.keywordsArtists
dc.titlePeddling Prejudice: A Series of Twelve Profile Portraits of Aborigines of New South Wales
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorFindlay, Elisabeth A.


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