A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN PAINTING

by Quartermaine, Peter and Watkins, Jonathan

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Book desription: Bison, London, 1989, first edition.. 192 pp, folio (14 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0861245199 Profusely illustrated with colour reproductions, b&w photographs. "The art of Australia is especially rich, though too little known abroad, and offers a rewarding insight into . the imaginative traditions of the nation. Paintings are testaments of individual vision whose immediacy of insight spans the centuries. We marvel at a convict artist's delicate rendering of Sydney Harbour in the late 1970s, or at a contemporary Ab. original artist blending traditional and Western images to interpret today's urban Australia. In their informative illustrated introduction the authors, both scholars of Australian art with extensive and varied experience of the continent, trace . s i gnificant developments in Australian history and culture, while a detailed discussion of almost 100 pictures painted in Australia between 1792 and 1987 shows that all such images require, as much as tell, a story. No mere list of 'facts', this . ab so rbing study will prove both enjoyable and thought-provoking for all those interested in Australia, whether as residents or visitors; at once outspoken, critical and enthusiastic, it is a history of painting worthy of the Australian people them. sel ves ." This large volume will require extra postage. Large Christmas gift inscription with border on free front endpaper, very tiny tear at bottom of page 91/92, light waviness to top/bottom edge of textblock. Dust jacket has very light edge . wear at top of spine and flap-folds, light wrinkling along top edge, light browning to top half of panels. Very Good/Very Good.

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