Author: Grace Cossington Smith
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780642542038
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Crossington Smith's life spanned nearly a century and this new book examines the development of her work covering the metropolis, portraits, still life, landscapes and flowers, religion and war, theatre and ballet performances, and her great domestic interiors infused with light as well as many drawings.
Grace Cossington Smith
Author: Grace Cossington Smith
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780642542038
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Crossington Smith's life spanned nearly a century and this new book examines the development of her work covering the metropolis, portraits, still life, landscapes and flowers, religion and war, theatre and ballet performances, and her great domestic interiors infused with light as well as many drawings.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780642542038
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Crossington Smith's life spanned nearly a century and this new book examines the development of her work covering the metropolis, portraits, still life, landscapes and flowers, religion and war, theatre and ballet performances, and her great domestic interiors infused with light as well as many drawings.
O'Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith
Author: Denise Mimmocchi
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9781921330537
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book brings fresh perspectives on the works of celebrated modernists Georgia O’Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith, illuminating some of the artistic and cultural parallels and common themes between American and Australian modernism while exploring each artist’s unique contribution to international developments of modernism.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9781921330537
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book brings fresh perspectives on the works of celebrated modernists Georgia O’Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith, illuminating some of the artistic and cultural parallels and common themes between American and Australian modernism while exploring each artist’s unique contribution to international developments of modernism.
Sydney Moderns
Author: Deborah Edwards
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791349176
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This treasury of Australian art created between the two world wars sheds fascinating light on the country's incredible artistic growth and the flowering of modernism Down Under. This volume comprises some 400 works by Ralph Balson, Frank and Margel Hinder, Roland Wakelin, and others in the Australian vanguard. Arranged by theme, the art reflects a remarkable range of styles and genres: abstraction, landscapes, still lifes, portraits.
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791349176
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This treasury of Australian art created between the two world wars sheds fascinating light on the country's incredible artistic growth and the flowering of modernism Down Under. This volume comprises some 400 works by Ralph Balson, Frank and Margel Hinder, Roland Wakelin, and others in the Australian vanguard. Arranged by theme, the art reflects a remarkable range of styles and genres: abstraction, landscapes, still lifes, portraits.
The New Science of Color
Author: Beatrice Irwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Stravinsky's Lunch
Author: Drusilla Modjeska
Publisher: Picador Australia
ISBN: 9780330362597
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Paperback publication of a biography of Grace Cossington Smith and Stella Bowen, two women artists born in Australia in the 1890s. First published 1999. Compares their very different lives and how their lifestyles affected their work. Discusses the people who influenced them and the ways in which their art developed. Copiously illustrated, including colour plates. Includes references and index. Author's other publications include 'Poppy', 'The Orchard' and 'Exiles at Home: Australian women writers 1924-1945'.
Publisher: Picador Australia
ISBN: 9780330362597
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Paperback publication of a biography of Grace Cossington Smith and Stella Bowen, two women artists born in Australia in the 1890s. First published 1999. Compares their very different lives and how their lifestyles affected their work. Discusses the people who influenced them and the ways in which their art developed. Copiously illustrated, including colour plates. Includes references and index. Author's other publications include 'Poppy', 'The Orchard' and 'Exiles at Home: Australian women writers 1924-1945'.
Daniel Thomas
Author: HANNAH (ED) & MILLER FINK (STEVEN (ED) & BRAND, MICHAEL (ED))
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741741506
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
... over the course of half a century, Daniel has asked and answered the questions that no one else has thought of. Originality, curiosity, generosity and intellectual precision have always been at the heart of his work. Andrew Sayers, former director of the National Portrait Gallery, CanberraNo one knows more about Australian art than Daniel Thomas. Over the past sixty years, he has shaped Australian art history, championing women artists such as Grace Cossington Smith and extending the appreciation of art beyond museum walls to include performance and environmental art. Daniel's exhibitions and purchases - as the first museum professional at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, inaugural curator of Australian art at the National Gallery in Canberra, and director of the Art Gallery of South Australia - have defined our national canon of art.Covering the period from 1958 to 2020, Recent past: writing Australian art is the first anthology of Thomas's writings and presents an overview of Australian art, at once authoritative and idiosyncratic, bringing alive both old and new art.Daniel life's work has been to make art more widely understood and enjoyed. Yet most of his writings have appeared in specialist publications which are often now difficult to source. This book celebrates Daniel's contribution to Australian art and will introduce his writings to new generations of art enthusiasts.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741741506
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
... over the course of half a century, Daniel has asked and answered the questions that no one else has thought of. Originality, curiosity, generosity and intellectual precision have always been at the heart of his work. Andrew Sayers, former director of the National Portrait Gallery, CanberraNo one knows more about Australian art than Daniel Thomas. Over the past sixty years, he has shaped Australian art history, championing women artists such as Grace Cossington Smith and extending the appreciation of art beyond museum walls to include performance and environmental art. Daniel's exhibitions and purchases - as the first museum professional at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, inaugural curator of Australian art at the National Gallery in Canberra, and director of the Art Gallery of South Australia - have defined our national canon of art.Covering the period from 1958 to 2020, Recent past: writing Australian art is the first anthology of Thomas's writings and presents an overview of Australian art, at once authoritative and idiosyncratic, bringing alive both old and new art.Daniel life's work has been to make art more widely understood and enjoyed. Yet most of his writings have appeared in specialist publications which are often now difficult to source. This book celebrates Daniel's contribution to Australian art and will introduce his writings to new generations of art enthusiasts.
Razor Wire Women
Author: Jodie Michelle Lawston
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438435312
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women’s incarcerated experiences.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438435312
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women’s incarcerated experiences.
Nora Heysen: A Portrait
Author: Anne-Louise Willoughby
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1925815218
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Hahndorf artist Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, and Australia's first female painter to be appointed as an official war artist. A portraitist and a flower painter, Nora Heysen's life was defined by an all-consuming drive to draw and paint. In 1989, aged 78, Nora re-emerged on the Australian art scene when the nation's major art institutions restored her position after years of artistic obscurity. Extensively researched, and containing artworks and photographs from the painter's life, this is the first biography of the artist, and it has been enthusiastically embraced by the Heysen family. This authorized biography coincides with a major retrospective of the works of Nora and her father, landscape painter Hans Heysen, to be held at the National Gallery of Victoria in March 2019.
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1925815218
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Hahndorf artist Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, and Australia's first female painter to be appointed as an official war artist. A portraitist and a flower painter, Nora Heysen's life was defined by an all-consuming drive to draw and paint. In 1989, aged 78, Nora re-emerged on the Australian art scene when the nation's major art institutions restored her position after years of artistic obscurity. Extensively researched, and containing artworks and photographs from the painter's life, this is the first biography of the artist, and it has been enthusiastically embraced by the Heysen family. This authorized biography coincides with a major retrospective of the works of Nora and her father, landscape painter Hans Heysen, to be held at the National Gallery of Victoria in March 2019.
Painting Ghosts
Author: Catherine Speck
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781877004223
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Examines the art and life stories of numerous women in the Second World War including Grace Cossington Smith, Dora Meeson, Margaret Preston, Jacqui Hicks, Dorrit Black and Amie Kingston. Some women became official war artists producing an alternative set of national images every bit as compelling as those of their male counterparts.
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781877004223
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Examines the art and life stories of numerous women in the Second World War including Grace Cossington Smith, Dora Meeson, Margaret Preston, Jacqui Hicks, Dorrit Black and Amie Kingston. Some women became official war artists producing an alternative set of national images every bit as compelling as those of their male counterparts.
Strange Country
Author: Patrick McCaughey
Publisher: Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 9780522861204
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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.
Publisher: Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 9780522861204
Category : Art, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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.