Brought to light : Australian art, 1850-1965 : from the Queensland Art Gallery collection / editors, Lynne Seear & Julie Ewington
Author(s): Ewington, Julie | Seear, Lynne
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Brought to light : Australian art, 1850-1965 : from the Queensland Art Gallery collection
- Author(s)
- Seear, Lynne
Ewington, Julie - Publisher
- South Brisbane, Qld. : Queensland Art Gallery, 1998
- Collation
- 319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits
31 cm - Summary
- This is a new publication on the Australian art collection of the Queensland Art Gallery and has been designed to be groundbreaking in its scope and appeal to establish a new model for the documentation of visual arts collections in Australia. It is not a catalogue as such but an anthology of commissioned essays on significant works.
- ISBN
- 0724282114
- Dewey Class
- 709.94
- Contents
- Foreword / Doug Hall -- Introduction / Julie Ewington -- Antipodean Bounty: A Garden of Summer Delight / Robyn Daw (Henry Short Fruit and Flowers) -- Learning From the First Lesson: George Folingsby and Genre Painting / Doug Hall (G.F. Folingsby The first lesson) -- Au Australian 'Problem Picture' / Pamela Gerrish Nunn (Chester Earles Interior with Figures) -- Victoria's Children: Innocents Abroad / Mary Laurenson (Nicholas Chevalier Weary: An episode at St Leonards) -- Continuing Traditions / Andrew Sayers (William Barak Corroboree) -- Taste and the Late-Colonial Brisbane Residence / Rodney James (Artist unknown Stained glass window) -- 'HJ Sketches the Scene' / Susan Herbert (Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe in Queensland) -- A Sense of Place: Jenner and Brisbane History / Bronwyn Mahoney (Isaac Walter Jenner Brisbane from Bowen Terrace, New Farm) -- International Classicists in the 'Australian Impressionist' Era / Jane Clark (Arthur Loureiro and Bertram Mackennal) -- Around the Studios / Leigh Astbury (Girolamo Nerli The sitting) -- Out in the Open: Australian Pleinairism and the Heidelberg School / Anita Callaway (Arthur Streeton, Walter Withers, Girolamo Nerli) -- Dancing Across the Landscape / Joanna Mendelssohn (Sydney Long Spirit of the Plains) -- The Ill-Fated Pierrot: Charles Conder in Europe / Robyn Daw (Charles Conder Le Retour de Pierrot) -- Restless Mind, Still Lives / Pat Hoffie (A.M.E. Bale Leisure moments) -- Looking for the 'Beau Monde' in Brisbane / Sarah Tiffin (Godfrey Rivers Under the jacaranda) -- L'allure de la Cote Sauvage / Ann Galbally / John Peter Russell Roc Toul -- Art for the Bourgeois Dreamers of Paris / Mark Pennings (Rupert Bunny Bathers) -- Family and a Special Friend / Candice Bruce (George Washington Lambert Portrait group (The mother)) -- Nature and Artifice / Virginia Spate (Emanuel Phillips Fox Bathing hour) -- 'Strapped to the Mangle': Art, Work and the 'Lady' Artist / Lynne Seear (Vida Lahey Monday morning) -- 'The Boy Artist' / Michael Beckmann (Lloyd Rees St Brigid's, Red Hill) -- A Singular Portrait / Drusilla Modjeska (Grace Cossington Smith Portrait of a man) -- In the Cause of Modernism / Anne Kirker (Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston) -- In Creative Partnership / Anne Kirker (Christian Waller and Napier Waller) -- Painting a Symphony / Candice Bruce (Roland Wakelin The Bridge under construction) -- A National Heroine / John Pigot (Hilda Rix Nicholas The fair musterer) -- 'It was a Simple Affair' / Gael Newton (Max Dupain Sunbaker) -- A Painter's Silent Protest / Mary Eagle (Peter Purves Smith The Nazis, Nuremberg) --
The Languages of Modern Art / Candice Bruce (Eric Wilson The violin and Stove theme) ; Two Views of Dobell (William Dobell The Cypriot 1940) -- Dobell and Modern Mannerism / Timothy Morrell -- Substance and Spirit / John Hook -- Hirschfeld Mack's Humanism / Rodney James (Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack Isle of Man) -- Reading Namatjira / Rodney James (The art of Albert Namatjira) -- 'Uncharacteristically Un-ambiguous' / Michael Beckmann (James Gleeson Structural emblems of a friend (self portrait)) -- In From the Cold / Bronwyn Mahoney (Leonard Shillam Reclining woman) -- The Urban Nocturne / David Burnett (Albert Tucker and John Perceval) -- 'Silence Reigns Here': Russell Drysdale and the Australian Landscape / Margaret Plant (Russell Drysdale Bush fire) -- 'When Threads are Drawn Across a Nervous-Pattern' / Michele Helmrich (Joy Hester Man and tree) -- The Judging of Susannah / Bronwyn Mahoney (Daphne Mayo Susannah) -- 'A Wave to Memory' / Lynne Seear (Sidney Nolan Mrs Fraser) -- Returning to Arcadia / Barry Pearce (Arthur Boyd Berwick landscape) -- Charles Mountford and the 'Bastard Barks': A Gift from the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, 1948 / Margo Neale (Mountford Expedition Works) -- Reality or Religious Fantasy / Heather Johnson (Roy de Maistre and Herbert Badham) -- 'Built on Each Other' / Candice Bruce (Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson) -- Icons and Politics / Felicity St John Moore (Danila Vassilieff Dancing girl and Harry and Ike) -- Encountering Dynamic Symmetry / Christine France (Frank Hinder and Margel Hinder) -- Images of the Music Hall / Kristy Grant (Fred Williams in London, 1952-56) -- Art and Mysticism / Deborah Edwards (Godfrey Miller Trees in moonlight) -- Namatjira in the Guise of an Elder Statesman / Ann Stephen (William Dargie Portrait of Albert Namatjira) -- North of Capricorn / Elizabeth Bates (Arthur Evan Read and Ray Crooke) -- The Lyrical Expressionism of Yvonne Audette / Christopher Heathcote (Yvonne Audette Allegro Serata) -- Ruled by the Moon / Elizabeth Churcher, AO (Jon Molvig A twilight of women) -- Careers in Counterpoint / Glenn R. Cooke (Carl McConnell & David and Hermia Boyd) -- 'A Grand Display of Linear Ecstasies' / Candice Bruce (Ian Fairweather Kite flying) -- Autumn in the Garden of Eden / Sasha Grishin (Leonard French and the 'Genesis' series) -- 'Come With Me on This Journey' / Deborah Hart (John Olsen Journey into the You Beaut Country No. 2) -- 'Put It Anywhere!': The Cafe Balzac mural / Richard Haese (Colin Lanceley, Mike Brown and Ross Crothall) -- Mystery Painting / Humphrey McQueen (Keith Looby Incarnation) -- 'You Can't Make Canonical Pictures From Categorical Confusion' / Julie Ewington (Ian Burn Re-ordered painting) -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. - Language
- English
- Subject
- Art, Australian -- 19th century
Art, Australian -- 20th century - BRN
- 10020
Notes
- Gift of Gael Newton.
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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709.94 BRO
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