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Indigenous Dispossession and Settler Colonial Art Galleries: Anguish at the National Gallery of Victoria.
| Title: | Indigenous Dispossession and Settler Colonial Art Galleries: Anguish at the National Gallery of Victoria. |
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| Authors: | Nichols, Kate e.k.nichols@bham.ac.uk |
| Source: | Art History. Feb2023, Vol. 46 Issue 1, p102-123. 22p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Black and White Photograph, 9 Illustrations. |
| Abstract: | Histories of settler colonial art galleries have tended to present these institutions as distant attempts to replicate British models. This essay argues that settler/Indigenous interactions, and the violent dispossession of Indigenous peoples, were fundamental to the formation of settler colonial art galleries, through a case study of the 1880s acquisition and reception of Danish painter A. F. A. Schenck's Anguish (1878) at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne, on unceded land of the Kulin nation. Examining the career of the NGV's London art adviser, Alfred Taddy Thomson, from the violence of the colonial frontier in the 1840s, to his art advising practice in late nineteenth‐century London, it demonstrates the ways in which frontier violence permeated the formation of British settler colonial cultural institutions. The acquisition and reception of Anguish provides a stimulus to rethink approaches to histories of settler colonial art galleries, and to European paintings in their collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | *Art museums, *Painting, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples |
| Company/Entity: | National Gallery of Victoria |
| People: | Schenck, August Friedrich Albrecht, 1828-1901 |
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| ISSN: | 01416790 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-8365.12697 |
| Database: | Art & Architecture Complete |
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