Sydney moderns : art for a new world / edited by Deborah Edwards, Denise Mimmocchi ; foreword by Daniel Thomas.
Author(s): Mimmocchi, Denise | Edwards, Deborah
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Sydney moderns : art for a new world
- Author(s)
- Edwards, Deborah
Mimmocchi, Denise - Publisher
- Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013.
- Collation
- 324 p. : ill. (some col.)
29 cm. - ISBN
- 9781741740905
- Dewey Class
- 709.94
- Contents
- Foreword / Daniel Thomas -- Sydney moderns / Deborah Edwards and Denise Mimmocchi --
Colour, light and colour-music. Colour, light and rhythm: tools for modernity / Deborah Edwards -- Focus Essays. Writing colour: from Mrs Van Gogh to Grace Cossington Smith / Bruce James -- The lost moderns: Tempe Manning, Niel A. Gren and Norah Simpson / Jasmin Dessman and Deborah Edwards -- Roland Wakelin: the early years / Deborah Clark -- Roy de Maistre: colour-music and the Verbrugghens / Elizabeth Gertsakis -- The 1919 Colour in art exhibition: myth busting / Heather Johnson -- De Maistre decoded / Niels Hutchison --
Modern life, modern city. Making Sydney modern: the artistic shaping of the postwar city / Denise Mimmocchi -- Focus Essays. Modern women: full throttle / Catriona Moore -- Harold Cazneaux's New Idea portraits / Natasha Bullock --Thea Proctor: towards a stylish Australia / Peter McNeil -- Sydney Ure Smith and the artists of The Home / Robert Holden -- Adrian Feint: a safer modernism? / Craig Judd -- Modernism in the decorative arts / John McPhee -- Colour and modern paint in the interwar decades / Paula Dredge -- Modern rooms: The Burderkin House exhibition / Martin Terry -- En garde: Hera Roberts and The Burdekin House exhibition / Gitte Weise -- Modern destinations / Martin Terry -- Art deco, modern life and the internationalisation of Sydney / Caroline Butler-Bowden -- Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin: international modernists / Anna Rubbo -- Ultra-moderne: Implement blue and The Lacquer Room / Deborah Edwards -- Icon of modernity: the Sydney Harbour Bridge / Denise Mimmocchi -- Frank Weitzel: tableau of the modern city / Deborah Edwards -- Rah Fizelle's images of the city and Sydney mural painting / Lesley Harding --Sex, drugs and modern art: the Sydney galleries / Steven Miller -- Modernist photography: the machine age in Sydney / Judy Annear -- Frank Hinder's 'futuropolis' / Hester Gascoigne --
Still-life as laboratory table. Still-life as a laboratory table / Denise Mimmocchi --
Landscapes of modernity. Landscapes of modernity 1920s-40s / Deborah Edwards --
Paths to Australian abstraction. The pedagogy of modern art: the quest for modernity by Australian artists abroad / Terence Maloon -- Focus essays. Mirmande: Dorrit Black, Grace Crowley and Anne Dangar / Tracey Lock-Weir -- Anne Dangar at Moly-Sabata / Bruce Adams -- The Sydney schools: Dorrit Black's Modern Art Centre and the Crowley-Fizelle school / Sarah Thomas -- Spectral colour forms: the sculpture of Eleonore Lange / Geoffrey Batchen -- Towards the abstract: the art of exhibition 1 / Denise Mimmocchi -- Collaborators: Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson / Elena Taylor -- Margo Lewers and the establishment of Notanda Gallery / Pamela Bell --Carl Plate and the Notanda Gallery / Cassi Plate -- Roy de Maistre: cubism and the 1930s / Terence Maloon -- Frank Hinder's paths to abstraction / Lesley Harding -- 'What the arty call the abstract ': Ralph Balson's 1941 exhibition / Lisa Slade. - Language
- English
- Subject
- Art, Australian -- 20th century.
Artists -- Australia -- 20th century.
Modernism (Art) -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Exhibitions. - BRN
- 5408
Notes
- Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 6 July - 7 October 2013.
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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709.94 SYD
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