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The Art of Australia

Episode 1: Strangers in a Strange Land

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Edmund Capon tells the story of how art helped European settlers come to terms with such an unfamiliar land on the other side of the world and how, ignoring 60,000 years of indigenous culture, they saw the place through a distorted European lens, until a uniquely Australian impressionism reflected the emergence of a distinctive national identity and an independent nation. Show less

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