The Colonial Eye: A Topographical and Artistic Record of the Life and Landscape of Western Australia, 1798–1914 by Barbara Chapman

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Marks on front and back covers. Scratch to front cover. Some cracking to spine, now protected with book tape. Marks on foredges.

Highlights from an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, 29 August-7 October 1979. The exhibition aims to shed light on specific aspects of the pre-colonial and colonial past. It examines the early European vision of landscape in Western Australia before the first settlement and up to the First World War. It covers the period during which the first art society and the first art school were begun. (Introduction)