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Nora Heysen

Jane Hylton
Nora Heysen Book PDF

Author : Jane Hylton
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1862548404

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Nora Heysen grew up at The Cedars near the Adelaide Hills town of Hahndorf, and was deeply influenced by her father, Hans Heysen. Nora Heysen: Light and life explores a notable career spanning seven decades, during which the artist painted some of Australia's most outstanding self-portraits, became the country's first female war artist, and was the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize. Curator and author Jane Hylton has written extensively on Australian art and has curated numerous exhibitions. In 2000 she left the position of Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia to become a freelance consultant.

Nora Heysen: A Portrait

Anne-Louise Willoughby
Nora Heysen A Portrait Book PDF

Author : Anne-Louise Willoughby
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781925815214

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Nora Heysen: A Portrait by Anne-Louise Willoughby Pdf

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.

Nora Heysen

Lou Klepac,Nora Heysen
Nora Heysen Book PDF

Author : Lou Klepac,Nora Heysen
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780642107299

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Nora Heysen by Lou Klepac,Nora Heysen Pdf

Nora Heysen’s (1911–2003) life has been driven by an unwavering passion for art. This publication brings together Heysen’s work from her early years as a young 16-year-old art student in the 1920s, to the rare, masterly confidence of her later years. As Lou Klepac writes, ’what may appear as a simple still life is in fact a miraculous moment.’

Heysen to Heysen

Catherine Speck
Heysen to Heysen Book PDF

Author : Catherine Speck
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743056417

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Heysen to Heysen by Catherine Speck Pdf

The prominent Australian artist Nora Heysen has been said to have worked in the shadow of her father Hans Heysen, one of Australia's most recognised landscape painters. Letters between the two, however, reveal a different story. In 1934, when Nora first travelled to London to study art, she experienced her first time away from home and the first of many, often exotic places from where she would write home to Hahndorf, South Australia. The correspondence between Nora and Hans continued until his death in 1968. Theirs was a close and affectionate relationship, in which father and daughter shared a lifetime of thoughts about art and life, and a mutual respect and admiration for each other's work. Heysen to Heysen is a showcase of letters between Nora and Hans Heysen from the collection of the National Library of Australia. Accompanied by carefully selected images and text by leading art historian Catherine Speck, the publication lifts the lid on a vista of Australian art.

Useless Beauty

Ann Elias
Useless Beauty Book PDF

Author : Ann Elias
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443884570

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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.

Australian Art

Andrew Sayers
Australian Art Book PDF

Author : Andrew Sayers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842145

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This comprehensive survey uniquely covers both Aboriginal art and that of European Australians, providing a revealing examination of the interaction between the two. Painting, bark art, photography, rock art, sculpture, and the decorative arts are all fully explored to present the rich texture of Australian art traditions. Well-known artists such as Margaret Preston, Rover Thomas, and Sidney Nolan are all discussed, as are the natural history illustrators, Aboriginal draughtsmen, and pastellists, whose work is only now being brought to light by new research. Taking the European colonization of the continent in 1788 as his starting point, Sayers highlights important issues concerning colonial art and women artists in this fascinating new story of Australian art.

Beyond the Battlefield

Catherine Speck
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Author : Catherine Speck
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780233840

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Beyond the Battlefield by Catherine Speck Pdf

World Wars I and II changed the globe on a scale never seen before or since, and from these terrible conflicts came an abundance of photographs, drawings, and other artworks attempting to make sense of the turbulent era. In this generously illustrated book, Catherine Speck provides a fascinating account of women artists during wartime in America, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and their visual responses to war, both at the front lines and on the home front. In addition to following high-profile artists such as American photographer Lee Miller, Speck recounts the experiences of nurses, voluntary aides, and ambulance drivers who found the time to create astonishing artworks in the midst of war zones. She also describes the feelings of disempowerment revealed in the work done by women distant from the conflict. As Speck shows, women artists created highly charged emotional responses to the threats, sufferings, and horrors of war—the constant fear of attack, the sorrow of innocent lives destroyed, the mass murders of people in concentration camps, and the unimaginable aftermath of the atomic bombs. The first book to explore female creativity during these periods, Beyond the Battlefield delivers an insightful and meditative examination of this art that will appeal to readers of art history, war history, and cultural studies.

Trailblazers

Carolyn Collins,Roy Eccleston
Trailblazers Book PDF

Author : Carolyn Collins,Roy Eccleston
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743056905

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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.

Australian Pastoral

Jeanette Hoorn
Australian Pastoral Book PDF

Author : Jeanette Hoorn
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 1920731547

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Australian Pastoral by Jeanette Hoorn Pdf

Australian Pastoral is a radical history of the pastoral landscape in Australian painting. As a primary means through which white settlement was described and legitimised, the pastoral was transcendent in European Australian art from the late eighteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. This book shows how pastoralism displaced all in its path, and how the pastoral landscape became a special art form in Australia and the primary means through which 'whiteness' and the taming of Australia was celebrated in painting. The book traces the history of pastoral painting through to the emergence in recent times of a black 'pastoral' landscape painting.

The Art of Copying Art

Penelope Jackson
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Author : Penelope Jackson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030889159

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The Art of Copying Art by Penelope Jackson Pdf

This book is a study of the history, role and significance of copying art. Copies have enjoyed a different status from authentic artworks and though often acknowledged, very rarely have they been considered collectively as a genre in their own right. This volume showcases a variety of examples—from copies of famous artworks made and used as props in movies to those made innocently by student artists as part of their training. Examining the motivations for making copies, and reflecting on the reception of copies, is central to this book. Copies have historically filled voids in collections, where some sadly languish, and have become a curatorial burden. In other cases, having a copy assists in conservation projects and fills the place of a lost work. Ultimately by interrogating a copy’s role and intent we might ask ourselves if viewing a copy changes our experience and perception of an artwork.

Picturing Australia

National Library of Australia
Picturing Australia Book PDF

Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780642276667

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Highlights from the Library's Pictures Collection - the stories behind some of our most interesting paintings.

Blooms and Brushstrokes

Penelope Curtin,Tansy Curtin
Blooms and Brushstrokes Book PDF

Author : Penelope Curtin,Tansy Curtin
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781743056493

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Blooms and Brushstrokes by Penelope Curtin,Tansy Curtin Pdf

Blooms and Brushstrokes takes you on a unique journey through the history of Australian art, one flower at a time, examining the blooms depicted in still lifes, floral portraits, decorative interiors and botanical illustrations by a long line of Australian artists. Mother-and-daughter team Penelope and Tansy Curtin start this fascinating journey in the late eighteenth century, when the traditions adhering to the Western art canon were transplanted into the newly colonised Australia. They follow it through the rapidly developing artistic styles of the early twentieth century, to the new media of the contemporary period. These works of art also shine a light on the role and importance of plants and flowers in everyday life. They illustrate changing floral fashions, as well as highlighting flowers in their various forms - cut flowers, pot plants and gardens. And along the way you'll encounter many of Australia's most significant artists, including John Glover, Arthur Streeton, Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, John Brack and Margaret Olley, as well as some of Australia's most beautiful, and sometimes intriguing, native flora, such as the waratah and Sturt's desert pea, not to mention perennial garden favourites like roses, sweet peas and daisies. Spectacular, intimate, engaging and meticulously researched - and full of interesting and quirky facts about the flowers and the artists themselves, Blooms and Brushstrokes is a book for art, flower and history lovers alike.

Art and Food

Peter Stupples,Jane Venis
Art and Food Book PDF

Author : Peter Stupples,Jane Venis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443857505

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Art and Food by Peter Stupples,Jane Venis Pdf

Art and Food is a collection of essays exploring a range of research topics relating to the representation of food in art and art in food, from iconography and allegory, through class and commensality, to kitchen architecture and haute cuisine.

Unending War

Ian Howie-Willis
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Author : Ian Howie-Willis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925275735

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Unending War by Ian Howie-Willis Pdf

Malaria is not only the greatest killer of humankind, the disease has been the relentless scourge of armies throughout history. Malaria thwarted the efforts of Alexander the Great to conquer India in the fourth century BC. Malaria frustrated the ambitions of Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan to rule all Europe in the fourth and thirteenth centuries AD; and malaria stymied Napoleon Bonaparte’s plan to conquer Syria at the end of the eighteenth century. Malaria has also been the Australian Army’s continuing implacable foe in almost all its overseas deployments formation of the Australian Army in 1901. On at least three occasions malaria has halted Australian Army operations, bringing it to a standstill and threatening its defeat. The first time was in Syria in 1918, when a malaria epidemic cut a swathe through the Australian-led Desert Mounted Corps. The second time was in Papua New Guinea in 1942–43, when the Army was fighting malaria as well as the Japanese. The third time was in Vietnam in 1968, when malaria caused more casualties than did enemy action. Indeed the Australian Army has been fighting ‘an unending war’ against malaria ever since the Boer War at the end of the nineteenth century. The struggle against the disease continues 115 years later because virtually all Army’s overseas deployments are to malarious regions. Fortunately for Australian troops serving in nations where malaria is endemic, the Australian Army Malaria Institute undertakes the scientific research necessary to protect our service personnel against the disease. Ian Howie-Willis, in this very readable book, tells the dramatic story of the Army’s long and continuing struggle against malaria. It breaks new ground by showing how just one disease, malaria, is as much the serving soldier’s foe as any enemy force.

Under the Spell of the Ages

Trisha Dixon
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Author : Trisha Dixon
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0642276234

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Ardent lovers of landscape scenery will delight in this lavishly illustrated book which showcases 25 of Australia's most elegant and exquisite historic gardens. Australia's leading garden design photographer and writer Trisha Dixon brings to life the beauty of gardens such as those of Brindabella Station, Elsey Station, Wallcliffe House, Heide and The Cedars, locating them in time and place as she draws on the work of writers such as Banjo Paterson, Patrick White, Miles Franklin, Mary Gilmore and Louisa Meredith, as well as on a wide variety of memoirs, diaries and letters.