Abstract
Illuminated store fronts, vast painted panoramas, masquerades, theatrical performance, and posed tableau delighted colonial audiences in nineteenth-century Australia. These [End Page 704] examples of public art defined and challenged a society searching for a national identity in an isolated spot of the world. The outlook was promising. Artists spontaneously answered the call unhampered by the dictates of traditional academic practice. In Visual Ephemera Anita Callaway has meticulously researched long-overlooked elements of Victorian popular culture.
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