The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue MountainsMartin Thomas takes the reader on a journey through a compelling study of culture, landscape and mythology. For both Aboriginal people and their colonisers, the rugged landscape of the Blue Mountains has stood as an intriguing riddle and a stimulus to the imagination. The author evokes this dramatic and bewildering landscape and leads his readers through the cultural history of the locality in order to probe the 'dreamwork of imperialism'. |
Contents
1 THE EDGE | |
2 LOOKING OUT | |
3 INTO THE BLUE | |
SHADES OF BLUE | |
OVERTURE | |
1 TOWARDS THE HORIZON | |
2 VON GUÉRARDS SHADOW | |
3 A LABYRINTH | |
1 MORPHIC ECHOES STONY SILENCES | 53 |
2 HOMAGE TO CATALINA | 80 |
VERE GORDON CHILDE AND THE ABYSS OF TIME | 112 |
OVERTURE | 113 |
1 SETTING UP THE LEAP | 115 |
2 WHO WAS GORDON CHILDE? | 138 |
3 THE DESCENT OF MAN | 154 |
CODA | 176 |
INTO THE LABYRINTH | |
OVERTURE | |
1 A MOUNTAIN IS NOT A PLATEAU | |
2 LINE WITHOUT LIMIT | |
3 A CHIMERICAL ESTABLISHMENT | 25 |
4 FORGOTTEN JOURNEYS | 29 |
5 REFLECTION AND PROJECTION | 37 |
THE ECHO AND THE SOUND ITSELF | 50 |
OVERTURE | 51 |
1 TWO CAVES | 177 |
2 LOOKING BACK | 182 |
3 COCK AND BULL STORY | 190 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
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Aboriginal figure Archaeology Australian Bathurst Blaxland Blue Mountains Blue Mountains City Bull Cave Burragorang Caley Catalina cattle Childe's cliff Collection colonial colour convict cultural Darug Dawes death depicted described Echo Point edge emphasised European Evans expedition explorers foreground Frank Hurley Frank Walford George Caley Govetts Leap Gregory Blaxland Grose Grose River Guérard Gully Gundungurra Hill human Ibid imagination Jamison Valley Jellore Jenolan Jenolan Caves Journal journey Kanangra Katoomba Falls known labyrinth land landscape legend Library of Australia lived looking lookout Lynette Stanger Macquarie Melbourne Mirragan and Gurangatch Mitchell Mitchell's Mount Mountains City Library museum myth narrative National Library native Nepean painting Park photograph Port Jackson precipice Prehistorian R. H. Mathews range River rock sense settlement settlers South Wales story Strzelecki suggests suicide Sydney Tench Three Sisters tourist track travellers tree Vere Gordon Childe visited walking waterfall Wentworth Falls western wilderness William
References to this book
The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and Their Writers CA. Cranston,Robert Zeller Limited preview - 2007 |