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Useless beauty : flowers and Australian art / by Ann Elias.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elias, Ann, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting, Australian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Summary:
- The story of Australian art does not begin and end with landscape. This book puts flowers front and centre, because they have often been ignored in preference for more masculine themes.Departing from where studies of single flower artists leave off, Useless Beauty embraces the general topic of flowers in Australian art and shines new light on a slice of Australian art history that extends from 1880 to 1950. It is the first book of broad chronology to discuss Australian art through blossoms, which it does by addressing stories of major figures including Hans Heysen, Margaret Preston and Sidney
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-8457-X
- OCLC:
- 924632383
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