September 23, 2003
oh my goodness
This link is courtesy of the delightful and very informative Eye-Imagine. Philip is a very fine exponent of the text-image weblog.
Richard Daintree (1832–1878) Bush Travellers, Queensland [between 1864–1870, painted in London by unknown artist c.1870]oil on albumen photograph on canvas (44.0 x 60.7 cm) National Library of Australia
Now why would you do that to this Manet:
Why, that was before postmodernism. So what is the point? A joke? It is more than a perfect example of the pictorial exchanges that took place around the world. That is just art historical talk for influence.
Australia was seen as downunder an upsidedown world to Europe in the nineteenth century. Is this a reverse? Culture as parody?
Or was Australia always postmodern? A pastiche culture with no centre?