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Book  Australian Art and Artists in London  1950 965

Download or read book Australian Art and Artists in London 1950 965 written by Simon Pierse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtle and wide-ranging in its account, this study explores the impact of Australian art in Britain in the two decades following the end of World War II and preceding the 'Swinging Sixties'. In a transitional period of decolonization in Britain, Australian painting was briefly seized upon as a dynamic and reinvigorating force in contemporary art, and a group of Australian artists settled in London where they held centre stage with group and solo exhibitions in the capital's most prestigious galleries. The book traces the key influences of Sir Kenneth Clark, Bernard Smith and Bryan Robertson in their various (and varying) roles as patrons, ideologues, and entrepreneurs for Australian art, as well as the self-definition and interaction of the artists themselves. Simon Pierse interweaves multiple issues of the period into a cohesive historical narrative, including the mechanics of the British art world, the limited and frustrating cultural scene of 1950s Australia, and the conservative influence of Australian government bodies. Publishing for the first time archival material, letters, and photographs previously unavailable to scholars either in Britain or Australia, this book demonstrates how the work of expatriate Australian artists living in London constructed a distinct vision of Australian identity for a foreign market.

Book The Commonwealth and Group Exhibitions of Australian Painting in London 1953 1963

Download or read book The Commonwealth and Group Exhibitions of Australian Painting in London 1953 1963 written by Sarah Russell Scott and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern Australian Painting  1970 1975

Download or read book Modern Australian Painting 1970 1975 written by Kym Bonython and published by Adelaide : Rigby. This book was released on 1976 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australian Prints   catalogue of An  Exhibition  July   November  1972   Victoria   Albert Museum

Download or read book Australian Prints catalogue of An Exhibition July November 1972 Victoria Albert Museum written by Margaret MacKean and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 1972 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australian Dictionary of Biography  Volume 19

Download or read book Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 19 written by Melanie Nolan and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians. The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects. The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activist, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS child activists Tony Lovegrove and Eve Van Grafhorst have entries, as does conductor Stuart Challender, ‘the first Australian celebrity to go public’ about his HIV/AIDS condition in 1991. The arts are, as always, well-represented, including writers Frank Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring and Leonard Teale and arts patron Ian Potter. We are beginning to see the effects of the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to the ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded the Spanish Club of Sydney. Chinese restaurateur and community leader Ming Poon (Dick) Low migrated to Victoria in 1953. Often we have a dearth of information about the domestic lives of our subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, however, bravely disclosed at the Victorian launch of the federal government’s campaign to Stop Violence Against Women in 1993 that she was a survivor of domestic violence in her second marriage. Take a dip into the many fascinating lives of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Book Australian Watercolour Painters  1780 to the Present Day

Download or read book Australian Watercolour Painters 1780 to the Present Day written by Jean Campbell and published by Fine Art Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book P11  Painters Eleven

Download or read book P11 Painters Eleven written by Iris Nowell and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2011 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953 eleven Canadian Abstract Expressionist artists banded together to break through the barricades of traditional art at a time when landscapes were about the only paintings collectors were buying. Hungry for recognition, raging against the art establishment that was shutting them out, they decided to form a collective, expecting they would gain more attention as a group than as solo artists. In 1954, The Painters Eleven--Jack Bush, Oscar Cahén, Hortense Gordon, Tom Hodgson, Alexandra Luke, Jock Macdonald, Ray Mead, Kazuo Nakamura, William Ronald, Harold Town and Walter Yarwood--held their first exhibition in Toronto. Initially the public response echoed the worldwide sentiments toward Abstract Expressionism --mockery and bewilderment. Nevertheless, the exhibition attracted wide public interest and criticism faded into acclaim from critics and collectors alike. A successful 1956 exhibition at the Riverside Gallery in New York even elicited praise from the influential critic Clement Greenberg. Packed with gorgeous full color reproductions, this highly detailed account reveals the influences of the indivudual artists on the group's dynamic art and uncovers why the Painters Eleven had such a struggle for recognition, and why they acheived it so masterfully.

Book Australian Dictionary of Biography  1981 1990

Download or read book Australian Dictionary of Biography 1981 1990 written by Diane Langmore and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 17 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography contains 658 biographies of individuals who died between 1981 and 1990. The first of two volumes for the decade, it presents a colourful mosaic of twentieth-century Australian life. It contains biographies of well-known identities such as Sir Henry Bolte, Sir Robert Askin, Sir Reginald Ansett, Sir Macfarlane Burnet, Sir Raphael and Lady Cilento, Sir Arthur Coles, Robert Holmes-O-Court, Sir Warwick Fairfax, Sir Edmund Herring, Albert Facey, Donald Friend, Sir Roy Grounds, Sir Bernard Heinze and Sir Robert Helpmann. Eminent Australian women in the volume include Dame Elizabeth Couchman, Dame Kate Campbell, Dame Doris Fitton, Dame Zara Holt and Lady (Maie) Casey. Although many of the women achieved prominence in those professions conventionally regarded as the preserve of women, othersandmdash;such as Ruby Boye-Jones, coast-watcher; Ellen Cashman, union organiser; Elsie Chauvel, film-maker; Dorothy Crawford, radio producer; Ruth Dobson, diplomat; Mary Hodgkin, anthropologist; Margaret Kelly, restaurateur; and Patricia Jarrett, journalistandmdash;demonstrate that some women at least were breaking free of the constraints of traditional expectations. The lives of fifteen Indigenous Australians are included, as are those of a number of immigrants who fled from persecution in Europe to establish a new life in Australia.

Book The International Who s Who of Women 2002

Download or read book The International Who s Who of Women 2002 written by Elizabeth Sleeman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 5,500 detailed biographies of the most eminent, talented and distinguished women in the world today.

Book Permanent Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Haese
  • Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 052286080X
  • Pages : 155 pages

Download or read book Permanent Revolution written by Richard Haese and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961 the 22-year-old Mike Brown joined the New Zealand artist, Ross Crothall, in an old terrace house in inner Sydney's Annandale. Over the following two years the artists filled the house with a remarkable body of work. Launched with an equally extraordinary exhibition, the movement they called Imitation Realism introduced collage, assemblage and installation to Australian art for the first time. Laying the groundwork for a distinctive Australian postmodernism, Imitation Realism was also the first Australian art movement to respond in a profound way to Aboriginal art, and to the tribal art of New Guinea and the Pacific region. By the mid-1960s Brown was already the most controversial figure in Australian art. In 1963 a key work was thrown out of a major travelling exhibition for being overtly sexual; a year later he publicly attacked Sydney artists and critics for having failed the test of integrity. Finally, in 1966-67, Brown became the only Australian artist to have been successfully prosecuted for obscenity. Brown spent the last 28 years of his life in Melbourne, where his reputation for radicalism and nonconformity was cemented with his multiplicity of styles, exploration of themes of sexuality, and transgressive commitment to the ideal of street art and graffiti. Against a background of the counter-culture and the social and political upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, Brown's art and remarkable life of personal and creative struggle is without parallel in Australian art.

Book Classical Modernism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Felicity St. John Moore
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book Classical Modernism written by Felicity St. John Moore and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attractively illustrated exhibition catalogue which examines the work and influence of the painter/teacher George Bell. Through the work of his students and colleagues, Bell's contribution to the development of Australian art is explored. Includes a catalogue of works, a chronology of Bell's life and a select bibliography.

Book British Painting  74

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arts Council of Great Britain
  • Publisher : Conran Octopus
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book British Painting 74 written by Arts Council of Great Britain and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1974 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contemporary Sculpture in Australian Gardens

Download or read book Contemporary Sculpture in Australian Gardens written by Ken Scarlett and published by Craftsman House (AU). This book was released on 1993 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s who in Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard Dolman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 896 pages

Download or read book Who s who in Art written by Bernard Dolman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australian artists

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 8 pages

Download or read book Australian artists written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art and Australia

Download or read book Art and Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: