Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World
- ISBN-10
- 3791349171
- ISBN-13
- 9783791349176
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 328
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-02-25
- Publisher
- Prestel Pub
- Authors
- Deborah Edwards, Denise Mimmocchi
Description
This treasury of Australian art created between the two world wars sheds fascinating light on the country's incredible artistic growth and the flowering of modernism Down Under. This volume comprises some 400 works by Ralph Balson, Frank and Margel Hinder, Roland Wakelin, and others in the Australian vanguard. Arranged by theme, the art reflects a remarkable range of styles and genres: abstraction, landscapes, still lifes, portraits.
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