Drawing in Australia : drawings, water-colours, pastels and collages from the 1770s to the 1980s
Sayers, Andrew, 1957-20151989
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Examines the role of drawing in Australia demonstrating differences in the history of drawing and watercolour painting to that of other more accessible mediums such as oil painting or printmaking. Includes works from public & private collections.
Main title:
Imprint:
Melbourne Oxford University Press 1989
Collation:
288 p. illustrations
Contents:
Foreword by James Mollison - Europeans explore the South Pacific - New South Wales: Aborigines, natural history and landscape - New South Wales and Van Diemen's land delineated - Professional water-colourists of the 1830s and 1840s - Specialists and amateurs - Drawing contemporary life: the gold rushes and beyond - Landscape drawings and water-colours from the 1850s to the 1870s - Useful and popular: drawings in the Great Exhibitions - The generation of the 1880s and the emergence of life drawing - Black and white - Senuous and decorative beauty: the Edwardian period - The Great War - The imposition of order: drawing in Sydney between the wars - The blot of untroubled colour: water-colours between the wars - The modern drawing: the George Bell school and Melbourne radicals in the 1930s - To hell with elegance: war and its effects - Drawing in Sydney in the 1940s - The power of the image: Melbourne 1945-60 - Drawing: a voyage of discovery - Junk culture and calligraphic palimpsests - A coming of age: the 1970s - Notes - Bibliography - Index.
ISBN:
064213040X
Dewey class:
Q741.994 DRA
Local class:
741.994
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
18540
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Penrith Gallery | 741.994DRA | LE (Set: 06 Feb 2016)Not for loan (Set: 06 Feb 2016) |
| Penrith | Penrith Gallery | 741.994DRA | Not for loan (Set: 06 Feb 2016)LE (Set: 06 Feb 2016) |