UnAustralian art : ten essays on transnational art history / Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson
- Bib ID:
- 10001930
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Butler, Rex, author
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : Power Publications, 2022
- ©2022
- 278 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780909952105 (hardback)
- Summary:
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UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History proposes a radical rethinking of Australian art history. In a collection of ten essays, Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson argue against flatfooted accounts of Australian art, which continue to identify a distinctive national sensibility arising from a combination of place, people and history. The authors demonstrate that Australian art and artists have always been engaged in struggles and creative exchanges with the rest of the world. Examining Australian art as much from the outside in as the inside out, Butler and Donaldson's account includes a multitude of hitherto excluded stories of Australian expatriates who lived and worked overseas, as well as artists who came from elsewhere and continued to make art in Australia. Beginning with the Impressionist John Russell at the turn of the century in France and ending with the great Anmatyerre artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye in the late twentieth century, the book presents original research detailing the artistic connections between Australia and New Zealand, France, Britain, Germany, Asia, North America, South America and the Pacific, while also examining the work of artists from around the world who have made art inspired by Australia.
- Full contents:
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- Outside in : against a history of reception
- Cities within cities : Australian and New Zealand art of the twentieth century
- Against provincialism : Australian-American connections, 1900-2000
- Surrealism and Australia : towards a world history of surrealism
- Ten rooms : the real spaces of Asian-Australian artistic interaction
- Another Australia : British Australian art, 1880-1970
- War and peace : 150 years of German and Australia
- Trans-Pacific : Abstract painting in Australia, New Zealand and America, 1930-1960
- Madí and Mary Webb : Australian and South America
- All the world's Australias.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- General.
- Subject:
- Genre/Form:
- Essays
- Other authors/contributors:
- Donaldson, A. D. S, author
- Copyright:
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