Canvas Documentaries

By:

Mimi Colligan

Format:

Hardback

Release year:

1998

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Description

Moving panorama and diorama pictures came to Australia and New Zealand during the gold rushes of the 1850s and 1860s. Entrepreneurs brought great lengths of canvas from Britain and America depicting nineteenth-century battles and sea and land journeys from England to India and Australia. Others showed nostalgic scenes of 'home', such as trips down the River Thames. Local artists, often working as theatrical scenic painters, showed pictures of the gold fields, the Burke and Wills expedition and the Murray River. Canvas Documentaries is the first detailed documentation of the Australian panorama industry. Mimi Colligan gives new insight into largely ignored visual and cultural influences that helped form the colonial experience.

Release date NZ

October 6th, 1998

Author

Mimi Colligan

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Country of Publication

Australia

Illustrations

106 illustrations, (34 colour )

Imprint

Melbourne University Press

Pages

268

Publisher

Melbourne University Press

Year First Published

1998

Dimensions

275x222x23

ISBN-13

9780522850192

Product ID

3010045

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