The Art Of Australia
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the sun-scorched ochres of the outback to the colonial grandeur of Sydney's first galleries, The Art of Australia presents a sweeping and authoritative survey of Australian visual culture, chronicling its remarkable evolution from the earliest Aboriginal traditions through to the bold modernist movements of the twentieth century. Robert Hughes, one of the most celebrated and incisive art critics of his generation, guides the reader through a rich and often surprising artistic landscape, arguing passionately that Australian art deserves a far more prominent place in the global canon than it has traditionally been afforded. Hughes writes with a rare combination of scholarly rigour and infectious enthusiasm, bringing to life the painters, sculptors, and visionaries who shaped a nation's aesthetic identity against a backdrop of isolation, colonial anxiety, and breathtaking natural grandeur. His prose is vivid and uncompromising, dissecting individual works and broader movements with the same sharp intelligence that would later define his landmark television series The Shock of the New. For anyone seeking to understand how a continent found its artistic voice, this foundational text remains as provocative and revelatory as the day it was first published.
Author: Robert Hughes
Format: Paperback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the sun-scorched ochres of the outback to the colonial grandeur of Sydney's first galleries, The Art of Australia presents a sweeping and authoritative survey of Australian visual culture, chronicling its remarkable evolution from the earliest Aboriginal traditions through to the bold modernist movements of the twentieth century. Robert Hughes, one of the most celebrated and incisive art critics of his generation, guides the reader through a rich and often surprising artistic landscape, arguing passionately that Australian art deserves a far more prominent place in the global canon than it has traditionally been afforded. Hughes writes with a rare combination of scholarly rigour and infectious enthusiasm, bringing to life the painters, sculptors, and visionaries who shaped a nation's aesthetic identity against a backdrop of isolation, colonial anxiety, and breathtaking natural grandeur. His prose is vivid and uncompromising, dissecting individual works and broader movements with the same sharp intelligence that would later define his landmark television series The Shock of the New. For anyone seeking to understand how a continent found its artistic voice, this foundational text remains as provocative and revelatory as the day it was first published.