Cubism & Australian art / Lesley Harding, Sue Cramer.

By: Harding, Lesley [author.]Contributor(s): Cramer, Sue [author.] | Heide Museum of Modern Art [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Miegunyah Press series. Second numbered series ; ; no. 124.Publication details: Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press : Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2009Description: ix, 309 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780522856736 (hbk.) :Other title: Cubism and Australian artSubject(s): Art, Australian -- 20th century | Cubism | Cubism -- Australia | Cubism | AustraliaDDC classification: 709.04032 LOC classification: N7400.5.C82 | H37 2009
Contents:
Introduction / Lesley Harding and Sue Cramer -- Ch. 1. L'esprit nouveau 1913-1929 / Lesley Harding -- Ch. 2. Australia in the world and the world in Australia 1930-1939 / Lesley Harding -- Ch. 3. Re-picturing the modern world 1940-1949 / Lesley Harding -- Ch. 4. The spiritual adventure: postwar cubism 1950-1979 / Sue Cramer -- Ch. 5. Post-cubism 1980-2009 / Sue Cramer.
Summary: Traces the first manifestations of Cubism in Australian art in the 1920s, when artists studying overseas under leading cubist artists began to transform their art. By the 1940s, artists working within the canon of modernism referred to Cubism as part of their evolutionary process, and following World War II Cubism's reverberations were being felt as part of the abstraction movement. Cubism continues to have an influence on contemporary art by giving the geometric basis from which to seek an inner meaning beneath surface appearances, the exploration of the spiritual dimension of painting and a key to understanding modernism.Summary: This book traces the first manifestations of Cubism in Australian art in the 1920s, when artists studying overseas under leading cubist artists began to transform their art.
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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, 24 November 2009 - 8 April 2010.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 292-296) and index.

Introduction / Lesley Harding and Sue Cramer -- Ch. 1. L'esprit nouveau 1913-1929 / Lesley Harding -- Ch. 2. Australia in the world and the world in Australia 1930-1939 / Lesley Harding -- Ch. 3. Re-picturing the modern world 1940-1949 / Lesley Harding -- Ch. 4. The spiritual adventure: postwar cubism 1950-1979 / Sue Cramer -- Ch. 5. Post-cubism 1980-2009 / Sue Cramer.

Traces the first manifestations of Cubism in Australian art in the 1920s, when artists studying overseas under leading cubist artists began to transform their art. By the 1940s, artists working within the canon of modernism referred to Cubism as part of their evolutionary process, and following World War II Cubism's reverberations were being felt as part of the abstraction movement. Cubism continues to have an influence on contemporary art by giving the geometric basis from which to seek an inner meaning beneath surface appearances, the exploration of the spiritual dimension of painting and a key to understanding modernism.

This book traces the first manifestations of Cubism in Australian art in the 1920s, when artists studying overseas under leading cubist artists began to transform their art.

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