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Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia

Gray, Anne (ed.)
ISBN: 9780642541482 Category:

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AUSTRALIAN ART

This broad-sweeping survey of the National Gallery’s paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and decorative arts and design collections features more than 400 works. Indigenous and non-Indigenous works are represented, with iconic favourites such as Sidney Nolan’s ‘Ned Kelly’ series set alongside important but lesser-known acquisitions. The works are arranged in chronological order, from 1770 to 2002–‘Pre-colonial and Colonial’ through to ‘Art Now’. Insightful essays from over 50 artists, curators and scholars, range from personal reflections by artists discussing their own works to more discursive or critical commentaries placing works in their historical context.

This magnificent visual survey of Australian art provides an introduction to the National Gallery of Australia’s deep and broad-ranging collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, and design, by non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians. The collection is truly national in that it includes the activities of artists representative of the whole country.More than 400 works, from 1770 to 2002 are included, with perennial favorites, like Sidney Nolan’s “Ned Kelly” series, as well as important lesser-known works and newer acquisitions. The works are arranged chronologically beginning with Pre-colonial and Colonial (1770-1884), followed by Nationalists and Expatriates (1885-1914), Modernism and Feminism (1915-1939), Figurative Debate (1940-1959), Abstraction and Social Change (1960-1974), Anything Goes (1975-89) and Art Now (1990-2002).

Also included are insightful essays by over 50 of the artists who made the works, as well as by curators and scholars. Some are intense, personal reflections on individual works; others are more discursive and place the works in their art historical or historical contexts. All are aimed for the general reader.

 

  • 456 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. (Note: Heavy, oversized book) #201224
  • “Produced by the Publications Department of the National Gallery of Australia”
  • Bibliography : p. 439-446 and index: p. 450-455.

Additional Information

AuthorGray, Anne (ed.)
Number of pages456
PublisherNational Gallery of Ausralia
Year Published2002
Binding Type

French flaps, Softcover
Book Condition

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