AUSTRALIAN IDENTITY: Iconic Paintings

Founding of Sydney Cove by Capt. Arthur Philip R.N. [Jan 26th, 1788]

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.

SOURCE: Strangers in a Strage land (2014), ClickView, Rated E [56:31 mins]