Strange Country

Strange Country PDF Author: Patrick McCaughey
Publisher: Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 9780522861204
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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'Painting matters to Australia and Australians as it does in few other countries. It has formed our consciousness, our sense of where we come from, and who we are. It cries out for wider recognition and acknowledgement.' - Patrick McCaughey Why has Australia, an island continent with a small population, produced such original and powerful art? And why is it so little known beyond our shores? Strange Country: Why Australian Painting Matters is Patrick McCaughey's answer.

Strange Country

Strange Country PDF Author: Patrick McCaughey
Publisher: Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 9780522861204
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Book Description
'Painting matters to Australia and Australians as it does in few other countries. It has formed our consciousness, our sense of where we come from, and who we are. It cries out for wider recognition and acknowledgement.' - Patrick McCaughey Why has Australia, an island continent with a small population, produced such original and powerful art? And why is it so little known beyond our shores? Strange Country: Why Australian Painting Matters is Patrick McCaughey's answer.

Great Australian Paintings

Great Australian Paintings PDF Author: John E. B. Currey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Australian Aboriginal Paintings

Australian Aboriginal Paintings PDF Author: Jennifer Isaacs
Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)
ISBN: 9781864368031
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A collection of traditional Aboriginal paintings which spans decades and which displays the distinctive styles of two regions of Australia: the western desert and Arnhem Land. The paintings are simply presented to be easily appreciated, with brief notes on information provided by the artists themselves.

Aboriginal Art of Australia

Aboriginal Art of Australia PDF Author: Carol Finley
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822520764
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Describes the art of the Australian Aborigines including rock painting and engraving as well as sand and bark painting; also discusses the symbolism found in these works.

Australian Art

Australian Art PDF Author: Sasha Grishin
Publisher: Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 9780522869361
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Sasha Grishin is a leading Australian art historian, art critic and curator who has published some twenty books and over two thousand articles on various aspects of art. This book is his magnum opus, a comprehensive and definitive history of Australian art. Australian Art: A History provides an overview of the major developments in Australian art, from its origins to the present. The book commences with ancient Aboriginal rock art and early colonialists' interpretations of their surroundings, and moves on to discuss the formation of an Australian identity through art, the shock of early modernism and the notorious Heide circle. It finishes with the popular recognition of modern Indigenous art and contemporary Australian art and its place in the world.

Australia's Impressionists

Australia's Impressionists PDF Author: Tim Bonyhady
Publisher: National Gallery London
ISBN: 9781857096125
Category : Impressionism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, December 7, 2016-March 26, 2017.

Art in Australia

Art in Australia PDF Author: Christopher Allen
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500203019
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
A history of Australian art explores how artists inhabiting a new continent reflected their experiences in their work.

Great Australian Dissents

Great Australian Dissents PDF Author: Andrew Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107158532
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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Book Description
This book identifies, analyses and celebrates the significant and influential dissenting judicial opinions in Australian legal history.

Everywhen

Everywhen PDF Author: Henry F. Skerritt
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300214707
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Book Description
"This publication accompanies the exhibition Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 5 through September 18, 2016."

Sidney Nolan

Sidney Nolan PDF Author: Paula Dredge
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606065947
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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The newest addition to the Artist’s Materials series offers the first technical study of one of Australia’s greatest modern painters. Sidney Nolan (1917–1992) is renowned for an oeuvre ranging from views of Melbourne’s seaside suburb St. Kilda to an iconic series on outlaw hero Ned Kelly. Working in factories from age fourteen, Nolan began his training spray painting signs on glass, which was followed by a job cutting and painting displays for Fayrefield Hats. Such employment offered him firsthand experience with commercial synthetic paints developed during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1939, having given up his job at Fayrefield in pursuit of an artistic career, Nolan became obsessed with European abstract paintings he saw reproduced in books and magazines. With little regard for the longevity of his work, he began to exploit materials such as boot polish, dyes, secondhand canvas, tissue paper, and old photographs, in addition to commercial and household paints. He continued to embrace new materials after moving to London in 1953. Oil-based Ripolin enamel is known to have been Nolan’s preferred paint, but this fascinating study—certain to appeal to conservators, conservation scientists, art historians, and general readers with an interest in modern art—reveals his equally innovative use of nitrocellulose, alkyds, and other diverse materials.