Art Was Their Weapon: The History of the Perth Workers’ Art Guild

WEST AUSTRALIANA
The politics, art and culture of Perth’s Workers Art Guild are detailed in this comprehensive history, as well as the personal and professional lives of some of the movement’s key figures.The Workers’ Art Guild was a left-leaning political force and

influential cultural movement of the 1930s and 1940s in Perth. Police and intelligence arms kept close tabs on the Guild and its members,jailing some and intimidating many others prior to and during the period of the banning of the Communist Party in Australia.The book covers the personal and professional lives of key figures such as writer Katharine Susannah Prichard and theatre maverick Keith George, while charting the influence of the Communist Party on Western Australian artists.
Through the lives of its key players, such as writer Katharine Susannah Prichard and theatre maverick Keith George, Art Was Their Weapon illuminates a fascinating era in Western Australian history.
365 pages : map ; 24cm #120323R
Workers’ Art Guild (Perth, W.A.) — History. | Communist Party of Australia — Influence. | Arts — Western Australia — Perth — History. | Guilds — Western Australia — History. | Perth (W.A.) — History, Local. | Western Australia — History. | Australian