Matthew C Potter

British Art for Australia, 1860-1953

The Acquisition of Artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian National Galleries

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Produktbeschreibung

British art for Australia, 1860-1953: The Acquisition of Artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian National Galleries represents the first systematic and comparative study of collecting British art in Australia between 1860 and 1953 using the archives of the Australian national galleries and other key Australian and UK institutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781032475790
• ISBN-10: 103247579X
• Artikelnr.: 69897315

Autorenporträt

Matthew C. Potter is an associate professor and reader in art and design history at Northumbria University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: British Art for Australia, 1860-1953: An Introduction
Chapter Two: 'Work that would meet the taste of the Colonists': British art
for Antipodean Britons
Chapter Three: 'The civilization of the people': Australian national
galleries and civic humanism
Chapter Four: 'A more extended area for English art': The British world and
the imperial art market
Chapter Five: 'The best equipped agent, with as free a hand': advisors and
selectors of British art for Australia
Chapter Six: 'A Sop to Cerberus': Collecting the British Old Masters in
Australia
Chapter Seven: 'One of the many Colonial Delusions': Australian national
galleries and British Landscape Painting
Chapter Eight: 'No highly desirable Pre-Raphaelite picture should be spared
from home': the antipodean pursuit of a British acme
Chapter Nine: 'The gap that is steadily widening': the acquisition of
'insular' British Modernism by Australian national galleries, 1900-1953
Chapter Ten: Conclusions