Landscape, Association, Empire Imagining Van Diemen’s Land

This book tells a compelling story about invasion, settler colonialism, and an emergent sense of identity in place, as seen through topographical and landscape images by seven fascinating artists. Their ways of imagining the Vandemonian landscape are part of a much larger story about how aesthetic forces shaped empire and colony, place and migration, and people’s lives. They remain intriguing through-lines of global significance and local meaning.

Philip Hutch is an honorary associate in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania. His research focus is on the intellectual history of pictures of place and landscape and on association and processes of mind.

Elaine Stratford is a professor in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania, with interests in the geohumanities and cultural and political geography and in how people flourish in place, in their movements, in daily life, and over the life-course.