British art for Australia, 1860-1953 : the acquisition of artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian National Galleries
British art for Australia, 1860-1953 : an introduction -- 'Work that would meet the taste of the colonists' : British art for antipodean Britons -- 'The civilization of the people' : Australian national galleries and civic humanism -- 'A more extended area for English art�...
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| Document Type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York
: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
, 2019
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| Series: | British art: histories and interpretations since 1700
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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[Rezension von: Potter, Matthew C., British art for Australia, 1860-1953, the acquisition of artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian National Galleries] |
| Author Notes: | Matthew C. Potter |
| Summary: | British art for Australia, 1860-1953 : an introduction -- 'Work that would meet the taste of the colonists' : British art for antipodean Britons -- 'The civilization of the people' : Australian national galleries and civic humanism -- 'A more extended area for English art' : the British world and the imperial art market -- 'The best equipped agent, with as free a hand ': advisors and selectors of British art for Australia -- 'A sop to Cerberus' : collecting the British old masters in Australia -- 'One of the many colonial delusions' : Australian national galleries and British landscape painting -- 'No highly desirable Pre-Raphaelite picture should be spared from home' : the antipodean pursuit of a British acme -- 'The gap that is steadily widening' : the acquisition of 'insular' British modernism by Australian national galleries, 1900-1953 |
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| Physical Description: | x, 254 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781472426369 |
