The Necessity Of Australian Art: An Essay About Interpretation
by Burn, Ian; Nigel Lendon; Charles Mereweather & Ann Stephen
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Power Institute of Fine Arts Sydney 1988 . Very Good, Signature 21.0 x 15.0cms, 156pp, b/w Illust Very Good- paperback & cover This book challenges the orthodoxies that dominated Australian art during the 20th century. It argues that Australia's visual arts imitate European and American models and it explores the ways that Australian art has defined itself within an international perspective.
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- THE CROSS Art + Books (AU)
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- Title
- The Necessity Of Australian Art: An Essay About Interpretation
- Author
- Burn, Ian; Nigel Lendon; Charles Mereweather & Ann Stephen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Power Institute of Fine Arts Sydney 1988
- Keywords
- Art - Australian National, Australian Studies - National landscape
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
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THE CROSS ART + BOOKS
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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