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Author:

Pierse, Simon.

Title:

Australian art and artists in London, 1950-1965 : an antipodean summer / Simon Pierse.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xx, 274 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Art, Australian--20th century.
Expatriate artists--London.--London.
Artists--Australia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-263) and index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Sir Kenneth Clark: deus ex machina of Australian art -- 2.A miserable climate: Australian artists in London, c. 1930-50 -- 3.Australian art and artists in the new Elizabethan age -- 4.Bryan Robertson, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery -- 5.Antipodeans, abstractionists and the quest for an exhibition in London -- 6.Recent Australian Painting at the Whitechapel Gallery -- 7.A horse designed by a committee: Australian Painting - Colonial - Impressionist - Contemporary -- 8.Flag of convenience: Australian art and the Commonwealth -- 9.Australian artists in early 1960s London -- 10.Australian Painting and Sculpture in Europe Today -- 11.Comings and goings in the mid-1960s.

ISBN:

140942054X
9781409420545

OCLC:

(OCoLC)693750997

LCCN:

2010053013

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)