Creating Australia: 200 Years Of Art 1788-1988
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
To mark the bicentenary of European settlement, Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788–1988 stands as a landmark cultural document, charting the full sweep of Australian visual art across two extraordinary centuries. The catalogue chronicles works from the earliest colonial paintings — landscapes shaped by wonder and disorientation — through to the bold, provocative canvases of the late twentieth century, presenting an unbroken thread of artistic identity that reflects the evolving soul of a nation. Compiled to accompany a major exhibition staged at the Art Gallery of South Australia, this authoritative volume presents an impressive breadth of mediums, movements, and makers, from the documentary precision of convict-era draughtsmanship to the raw abstraction of modernist and Indigenous voices. It argues, convincingly, that Australian art is not a derivative echo of European tradition but a distinct and vital force — forged by light, land, and lived experience. For collectors, scholars, and the simply curious, this volume remains an essential lens through which to understand what it has meant — and what it continues to mean — to make art in Australia.
Author: Daniel Thomas
Format: Paperback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
To mark the bicentenary of European settlement, Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788–1988 stands as a landmark cultural document, charting the full sweep of Australian visual art across two extraordinary centuries. The catalogue chronicles works from the earliest colonial paintings — landscapes shaped by wonder and disorientation — through to the bold, provocative canvases of the late twentieth century, presenting an unbroken thread of artistic identity that reflects the evolving soul of a nation. Compiled to accompany a major exhibition staged at the Art Gallery of South Australia, this authoritative volume presents an impressive breadth of mediums, movements, and makers, from the documentary precision of convict-era draughtsmanship to the raw abstraction of modernist and Indigenous voices. It argues, convincingly, that Australian art is not a derivative echo of European tradition but a distinct and vital force — forged by light, land, and lived experience. For collectors, scholars, and the simply curious, this volume remains an essential lens through which to understand what it has meant — and what it continues to mean — to make art in Australia.