But war, independence and new nationhood created different ideas about identity in the early decades of the twentieth, when the bearded, beer-sodden bushmen gave way to a beach-going urban Australian specimen. These were the Australians whose bodies were celebrated in the work of artists like Rayner Hoff and others of neo-classical bent. The Hoff is like a sportier, more worldly model of The Lawson.
The Hoff
The image of a hairy swag-wielding bushman might be one popularly associated with Australia in the late nineteenth century.
The Hoff
