Overview
- Explores the work of seven artists and their imperial, colonial, visual, and geographical legacies
- Shares a captivating story about empire and colony, centre and island periphery, and place and migration
- Richly illustrated and written in plain English, this book is accessible to diverse readers across several disciplines
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About this book
This book tells a compelling story about invasion, settler colonialism, and an emergent sense of identity in place, as seen through topographical and landscape images by seven fascinating artists. Their ways of imagining the Vandemonian landscape are part of a much larger story about how aesthetic forces shaped empire and colony, place and migration, and people’s lives. They remain intriguing through-lines of global significance and local meaning.
Keywords
- Colonial imperialism
- Intellectual history
- Landscape art
- Space and place
- Geohumanities
- Van Diemen’s Land
- Tasmania
- British Empire
- Australian art
- George Prideaux Harris
- George William Evans
- George Frankland
- Joseph Lycett
- Mary Morton Allport
- John Skinner Prout
- Louisa Ann Meredith
- Colonisation
- Australia
- Wilderness
Table of contents (6 chapters)
Reviews
Long-standing imaginings of Van Diemen’s Land—as island, as ends of worlds, as pristine wilderness, as emptied of Aborigines—continue to shape contemporary lutruwita/Tasmania. In this superbly contextualised engagement with the work of seven colonial artists, Hutch and Stratford show how associationist thinking was integral to settler landscapes of dispossession and possession. Landscape, Association, Empire provides a surprisingly hopeful wrestling with the fraught legacies of settler colonialism; the future can be imagined otherwise.
—Professor Lesley Head, University of Melbourne, Australia
Landscape, Association, Empire explores how representation echoes, shapes, and haunts understanding. It carefully documents the interplay of art, image, policy, and action that tried to create Van Diemen’s Land as a place of white innocence and Indigenous absence in the presence of genocide. Its impressive scholarship traces the contexts of colonising through place-making and place-imagining as distilled in landscape paintings. It insists that representation is never neutral or context free; always it has consequences. Hutch and Stratford’s brilliant rethinking of colonial imagery undermines narratives of settlement, inviting new conceptualisations of how Tasmania’s pasts, presents, and futures connect.
—Professor Richie Howitt, Macquarie University, Australia
This fascinating and important book critically examines the diverse works of seven nineteenth century topographical artists, surveyors and writers in Van Diemen’s Land. It is illustrated with over 60 carefully selected drawings, paintings, and maps. The authors provide many original and thought-provoking insights into the ways settlers’ aesthetic associations were used to construct different ideas of place and home.
—Professor Charles Watkins, University of Nottingham, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Philip Hutch is an honorary associate in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania. His research focus is on the intellectual history of pictures of place and landscape and on association and processes of mind.
Elaine Stratford is a professor in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania, with interests in the geohumanities and cultural and political geography and in how people flourish in place, in their movements, in daily life, and over the life-course.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landscape, Association, Empire
Book Subtitle: Imagining Van Diemen’s Land
Authors: Philip Hutch, Elaine Stratford
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5419-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5418-6Published: 03 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5421-6Due: 04 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-5419-3Published: 02 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 217
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Cultural History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Migration