Printed Images by Australian Artists, 1885-1955 |
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Author:
| Butler, Roger |
ISBN: | 978-0-642-54204-5 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2007 |
Publisher: | National Gallery of Australia
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $89.00 |
Book Description:
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This volume follows printmaking through a seventy-year period, from the latter part of the ninteenth century as the print, freed from its reproductive bonds, became a vehicle for pure artistic expression; through the great social and political traumas of the first half of the twentieth century, when the print was co-opted to carry a political message; and concludes in the immediate postwar years with prints that signal the artists' seach for meaning and an awareness of self.
This volume follows printmaking through a seventy-year period, from the latter part of the ninteenth century as the print, freed from its reproductive bonds, became a vehicle for pure artistic expression; through the great social and political traumas of the first half of the twentieth century, when the print was co-opted to carry a political message; and concludes in the immediate postwar years with prints that signal the artists' seach for meaning and an awareness of self.