Out of Australia : prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas / Stephen Coppel ; with a contribution by Wally Caruana on Aboriginal prints.
Language: English Publication details: London : British Museum Press, 2011. Description: 240 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cmISBN: 0714126721; 9780714126722Subject(s): British Museum -- Exhibitions | Art, Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Art, Australian -- 21st century -- Exhibitions | Prints, Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Prints, Australian -- 21st century -- Exhibitions | Drawing, Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Drawing, Australian -- 21st century -- Exhibitions | Prints, Aboriginal Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Prints, Aboriginal Australian -- 21st century -- Exhibitions | Artists -- Australia -- ExhibitionsLOC classification: N7400.2 .O98 2011Summary: This book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first emerged in the 1940s. Beginning with the artists of the Angry Penguins movement, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Sidney Nolan, whose work exhibited a new strain of surrealism and expressionism, the book continues with the rich variety of 1970s work by Jan Seberg, Robert Jacks and George Baldessin, moving through to contemporary artists such as Rover Thomas and Judy Watson. Stephen Coppel traces the major developments in Australian art from the 1940s to the present day, and examines the significant interplay with the British art scene and the recent rise of Aboriginal printmaking.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Books | Vitali Hakko Kreatif Endüstriler Kütüphanesi | N7400.2 .O98 2011 | Not for loan | 008583 |
This book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first emerged in the 1940s. Beginning with the artists of the Angry Penguins movement, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Sidney Nolan, whose work exhibited a new strain of surrealism and expressionism, the book continues with the rich variety of 1970s work by Jan Seberg, Robert Jacks and George Baldessin, moving through to contemporary artists such as Rover Thomas and Judy Watson. Stephen Coppel traces the major developments in Australian art from the 1940s to the present day, and examines the significant interplay with the British art scene and the recent rise of Aboriginal printmaking.