Thesis (M.A.)--University of Melbourne, 1982. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, leaves 360-384).

This paper is an examination of the relationship of Australian landscape imagery to culture and identity. Visual and historical ideas in the Heidelberg School and more contemporary landscape work is assessed in relation to social history in the work of Ian Burn et al and the social history in the work of Anne Maree Willis. These two types of history are compared and conclusions are made about their similarities and differences in the articulation of identity and culture. It will be concluded that identity and culture are ideas and values which are recycled and relocated with the passage of time and that certain central themes reoccur in the construction of identity and culture / Master of Visual Arts (Hons)

The thesis covers Melbourne in the 1870s: the formative years; the Heidelberg School and the popular image; George Folingsby: Australian narrative painting; the social and cultural background of the rural mythology; freedom and independence: ‘On the Wallaby Track’; Tom Roberts: ‘Strong, masculine labour’; Frederick McCubbin: the spirit of the pioneers; The Lost Child: nature’s enticing but treacherous beauty.

Thesis (M.A.)(Hons)--University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references.