Cubism & Australian Art - Couverture rigide

Harding, Lesley; Cramer, Sue

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 052285673X ISBN 13 : 9780522856736

Editeur : Melbourne University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Cubism was a movement that changed fundamentally the course of twentieth-century art. ""Cubism and Australian Art"" shows the impact of this revolutionary and transformative movement on Australian painting from the early twentieth century to the present day. The book traces the first manifestations of Cubism in Australian art in the 1920s, when artists studying overseas under leading cubist artists began to transform their art. By the 1940s, artists working within the canon of modernism referred to Cubism as part of their evolutionary process, and following World War II Cubism's reverberations were being felt as part of the abstraction movement. Cubism continues to have an influence on contemporary art by giving the geometric basis from which to seek an inner meaning beneath surface appearances, the exploration of the spiritual dimension of painting and a key to understanding modernism. More than eighty international and Australian artists are showcased with over 200 works featuring Alexander Archipenko, George Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger and Pablo Picasso as well as Margaret Preston, Roy de Maistre, Dorrit Black, Sam Atyeo, Grace Crowley and Adrian Lawlor.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lesley Harding joined Heide Museum of Modern Art as Curator in 2005. She has curatorial experience spanning fifteen years and is an art historian specialising in Australian modernism. She has a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts and English Literature, Postgraduate diploma in Art Curatorial Studies, and MA in Art History from the University of Melbourne. She is completing a PhD in the University s School of Culture & Communication which examines modernist mural painting in Australia for which she received an Australian Postgraduate Award. Sue Cramer joined Heide Museum of Modern Art as Public Programs Co-ordinator in 2005 and in January 2009 took up the position of Curator. Following a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts and History at the University of Melbourne she has worked since the early 1980s as a curator and writer on contemporary art. In 1990 Sue was awarded a Professional Development Grant by the Australia Council enabling her to take up the one-year position of Visiting Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. She subsequently joined the MCA as a Curator (from 1991 2001). In 1984, Sue was Art Critic for The Age newspaper in Melbourne. In addition to writing exhibition catalogu

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Melbourne University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 052285673X
• ISBN 13: 9780522856736
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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