Sebastian Smee explores Fred Williams’s ‘Australian landscape’ series of the 1960s and 1970s
from cave paintings and Roman mosaics to Picasso and Damien Hirst
A selected bibliography and exhibition history are also included
Colonialism has been a struggle over archives and its processes as much as anything else
The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen's Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian
Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University Publisher / Editions 3 Sebastian Smee explores Fred Williams’sCourting Blakness is beautiful and unique record of a bold and unprecedented art exhibition in the University of Queenslands Great Court curated by internationally acclaimed artist, Fiona Foley, in September, 2014. For three weeks, Karla Dickens, Archie Moore, Ryan Presley, Natalie Harkin, Megan Cope, r e a, Michael Cook and Christian Thompson reclaimed this historically white space, creating a visual dialogue between contemporary Aboriginal art and