Margarat Preston Selected Writings 1920 1950

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ETT Imprint
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1923024671

Get Book

Margarat Preston Selected Writings 1920-1950 by Anonim Pdf

Never shy of voicing an opinion, artist Margaret Preston launched into print on a variety of subjects from flower arranging and furnishing a bedroom, to Aboriginal art and design, pokerwork, pottery and Wood-blocking. Selected from the pages of Australia's newspapers and art journals by Elizabeth Butel, this collection addresses Preston's recurring preoccupations - Modern art, an Australian national art and the craft of art-making. "The natural enemy of the dull," Preston's style is infused with paradox, retaining its freshness, through her very direct, uncompromising attack and accompanied by examples of her woodcuts.

Author : Margaret Preston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art, Aboriginal Australian
ISBN : 1920688145

Get Book

Art and Australia by Margaret Preston Pdf

A lively, often surprising, always individual collection of articles and essays by renowned Australian artist Margaret Preston. Selected from the pages of the magazines Woman's World and Art in Australia by Elizabeth Butel (author of Margaret Preston, 1995) these articles have not been previously collected together, and in this form they provide a very useful summary of the changing perceptions of modernism and Australian art during the middle years of this century. Articles on the use of Aboriginal design in art and pioneer women artists are complemented by Preston's engaging travel writing. Margaret Preston, Australia's foremost woman painter between the wars, sent a series of shock-waves through Sydney art circles with her spirited journalism during a career that spanned seventy years.

Author : Margaret Preston
Publisher : ETT Imprint
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781925416237

Get Book

Selected Writings - Margaret Preston by Margaret Preston Pdf

Never shy of voicing an opinion, artist Margaret Preston launched into print on a variety of subjects, from flower arranging and furnishing a bedroom, to Aboriginal art and design, Pokerwork and Wood-blocking. Selected from the pages of Australia's journals by Elizabeth Butel, this collection addresses Preston's recurring preoccupations - "modern" art, an Australian national art and the craft of art-making. "The natural enemy of the dull" - Preston's style is infused with paradox, retaining its freshness through her very direct, uncompromising attack and illustrated with examples of her woodcuts.

Author : Pam Meecham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781118639849

Get Book

A Companion to Modern Art by Pam Meecham Pdf

A Companion to Modern Art presents a series of original essays by international and interdisciplinary authors who offer a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of artistic works, movements, approaches, influences, and legacies of Modern Art. Presents a contemporary debate and dialogue rather than a seamless consensus on Modern Art Aims for reader accessibility by highlighting a plurality of approaches and voices in the field Presents Modern Art’s foundational philosophic ideas and practices, as well as the complexities of key artists such as Cezanne and Picasso, and those who straddled the modern and contemporary Looks at the historical reception of Modern Art, in addition to the latest insights of art historians, curators, and critics to artists, educators, and more

Author : Allana Lindgren,Stephen Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317696155

Get Book

The Modernist World by Allana Lindgren,Stephen Ross Pdf

The Modernist World is an accessible yet cutting edge volume which redraws the boundaries and connections among interdisciplinary and transnational modernisms. The 61 new essays address literature, visual arts, theatre, dance, architecture, music, film, and intellectual currents. The book also examines modernist histories and practices around the globe, including East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and Oceania, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Arab World, as well as the United States and Canada. A detailed introduction provides an overview of the scholarly terrain, and highlights different themes and concerns that emerge in the volume. The Modernist World is essential reading for those new to the subject as well as more advanced scholars in the area – offering clear introductions alongside new and refreshing insights.

Author : Ann Elias
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443884570

Get Book

Useless Beauty by Ann Elias Pdf

The story of Australian art does not begin and end with landscape. This book puts flowers front and centre, because they have often been ignored in preference for more masculine themes. Departing from where studies of single flower artists leave off, Useless Beauty embraces the general topic of flowers in Australian art and shines new light on a slice of Australian art history that extends from 1880 to 1950. It is the first book of broad chronology to discuss Australian art through blossoms, which it does by addressing stories of major figures including Hans Heysen, Margaret Preston and Sidney Nolan, as well as specific objects such as surreal flowers, Aboriginal flowers and war flowers. Whether modern or conservative, the artists in this study shared an intellectual and emotional passion for flora. This was true for men as well as women, despite blossoms being a more traditionally feminine subject. Through spectacular reproductions of historical and contemporary artworks drawn from collections in Australia, the United States, Britain and New Zealand, Useless Beauty explores how flowers influenced the psyche, governed rituals, defined identity and brought a psychological dimension to the everyday. The peak years for flower-centricity in Australian art were between 1920 and 1940 when flowers were known as the apotheosis of useless beauty.

Author : Robert Dixon,Veronica Kelly
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781920898892

Get Book

Impact of the Modern by Robert Dixon,Veronica Kelly Pdf

Australian and international modernity from the late 19th to the mid-20th century inspires research in many fields of cultural endeavour: architecture, fine arts, design, cinema, theatre, and music; in urban studies, literary history and Aboriginal studies. Impact of the Modern brings together examples of this new interdisciplinary work on modern Australian culture by 21 leading scholars. Their writings reveal an original account of 'modernising' Australia as dynamic and creative in many art forms, and interactively linked with international processes and ideas. The essays in Impact of the Modern were presented as papers at the conference, 'Australian Vernacular Modernities', convened by the editors at the University of Queensland in 2006. Plenary papers by Jill Julius Matthews and Angela Woollacott signal the book's focus on the erotic and gendered spaces, and on popular aspects of modernity. They provide the central focus of the material, through such vital and dynamic categories as the 'modern', the 'erotic' and the 'primitive'. As essential components of the historical processes of innovation and modernisation, these central questions of gender and public sociality are taken up in diverse ways in the other chapters, forming a varied and exciting study of a range of creative Australian engagements with modern international life and popular culture.

Author : Carolyn Collins,Roy Eccleston
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743056905

Get Book

Trailblazers by Carolyn Collins,Roy Eccleston Pdf

Australia's first female prime minister. The country's first female judge. The first woman to win the Archibald Prize for portraiture. Australia's first female chief diplomat. The nation's first female winemaker. These women were all trailblazers, but they have something else in common - every one of them was South Australian. And they are just a handful of the 100 remarkable women whose stories are told in this beautiful book, illustrated with hundreds of photographs. Written by historian Carolyn Collins and journalist Roy Eccleston, Trailblazers shines a light on the lives of these extraordinary women whose feats inspired their state, nation and, often enough, the world. Now they can inspire a whole new generation.

Author : Marie Geissler
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527564275

Get Book

The Making of Indigenous Australian Contemporary Art by Marie Geissler Pdf

This publication brings together existing research as well as new data to show how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical in the making of Indigenous Australian contemporary art and the self-determination agendas of Indigenous Australians. It identifies how, when and what the shifts in the reception of the art were, especially as they occurred within institutional exhibition displays. Despite key studies already being published on the reception of Aboriginal art in this area, the overall process is not well known or always considered, while the focus has tended to be placed on Western Desert acrylic paintings. This text, however represents a refocus, and addresses this more fully by integrating Arnhem Land bark painting into the contemporary history of Aboriginal art. The trajectory moves from its understanding as a form of ethnographic art, to seeing it as conceptual art and appreciating it for its cultural agency and contemporaneity.

Author : Laura Fisher
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783085323

Get Book

Aboriginal Art and Australian Society by Laura Fisher Pdf

This book is an investigation of the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has been entangled with Australian society’s negotiation of Indigenous people’s status within the nation. Through critical reflection on Aboriginal art’s idiosyncrasies as a fine arts movement, its vexed relationship with money, and its mediation of the politics of identity and recognition, this study illuminates the mutability of Aboriginal art’s meanings in different settings. It reveals that this mutability is a consequence of the fact that a range of governmental, activist and civil society projects have appropriated the art’s vitality and metonymic power in national public culture, and that Aboriginal art is as much a phenomenon of visual and commercial culture as it is an art movement. Throughout these examinations, Fisher traces the utopian and dystopian currents of thought that have crystallised around the Aboriginal art movement and which manifest the ethical conundrums that underpin the settler state condition.

Author : Stephanie Radok
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781743050439

Get Book

An Opening by Stephanie Radok Pdf

Artist and writer Stephanie Radok possesses a unique international perspective. For over twenty years she has written about and witnessed the emergence of contemporary Aboriginal art and the responses of Australian art to global diasporas. In 'An Opening: Twelve love stories about art', Stephanie Radok takes us on a walk with her dog and finds that it is possible to re-imagine the suburb as the site of epiphanies and attachments. 'Art wants to enter our lives, yet it is a rare art writer who lets it do that. Writing with full personal disclosure, Stephanie Radok lets us in on her secret. Art c.

Author : Hans G. Kippenberg,Birgit Mersmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110451115

Get Book

The Humanities between Global Integration and Cultural Diversity by Hans G. Kippenberg,Birgit Mersmann Pdf

Modernization and digital globalization have proven to mark major thresholds where paradigmatic shifts and realignments take place. This volume aims to capture the reconfiguration of humanistic study between the forces of global integration and cultural diversification from a full range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. The key issue is discussed in three major parts. The first chapter examines transnational interpolations of the humanities as potential indicator for a globalizing humanistic research. The second chapter deals with humanistic revisions of modernity with and against globality. The third chapter discusses the ambiguous constitution of cultural diversity as a complement and counter-movement to global integration, ideologically moving between social cohesion and exclusion. The final chapter outlines what the threshold-crossing from modern to global humanities will mean for the future of humanistic research. The multidisciplinary study of culture within the history of the humanities documents and reflects the mobility and migration of its concepts and methods, moving and translating between disciplines, research traditions, historical periods, academic institutions, and the public sphere.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : UOM:39015057984505

Get Book

Australian Book Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015058329098

Get Book

Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division Pdf

Author : Anne Gray
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015060092056

Get Book

The Edwardians by Anne Gray Pdf

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Australia in March 2004 that aims to reassess the art of the Edwardian period, focusing in particular on the art of Australia. Among Australia's most loved artists are those who went to Europe at the turn of the 19th century to study and live. Many of them stayed abroad for two decades and, like Australian film stars of today, became absorbed onto the world stage. This book places the work of these artists in the context of the British, Irish and American artists with whom they exhibited and associated, and demonstrates their parallel concerns in painterly approach and subject. Opening with paintings by Whistler, which were so influential on the artists of this period, the exhibition focuses on figurative paintings by select British, Irish, American and Australian artists from 1900 to 1914. It also includes George Lambert's King Edward VII (1910), completed shortly before Edward's death and now held in the Commonwealth of Australia Collection. In total the exhibition comprises approximately 140 paintings, sculptures, costumes and fan designs drawn from national and international collections.