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Useless beauty : flowers and Australian art / by Ann Elias.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443884570
  • 144388457X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 759.9/94 23
LOC classification:
  • ND1100
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Background -- ch. One Flowers and the Nineteenth Century -- ch. Two Premodern, Modern and Ultramodern Art -- pt. II The Art Establishment -- ch. Three Useless Beauty -- ch. Four The Outsider: Ellis Rowan -- ch. Five Defining Femininity -- ch. Six Flowers and Defiance: Hans Heysen -- ch. Seven WWI and the Floral Sublime -- pt. III Modernism -- ch. Eight The Flower Man -- ch. Nine Native Flowers -- ch. Ten Margaret Preston and Aboriginal Art -- ch. Eleven Celestial Sugar: Adrian Feint -- ch. Twelve Modern Flower Arranging -- ch. Thirteen Lust for Simplicity: Max Dupain -- ch. Fourteen The Human Condition.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Background -- ch. One Flowers and the Nineteenth Century -- ch. Two Premodern, Modern and Ultramodern Art -- pt. II The Art Establishment -- ch. Three Useless Beauty -- ch. Four The Outsider: Ellis Rowan -- ch. Five Defining Femininity -- ch. Six Flowers and Defiance: Hans Heysen -- ch. Seven WWI and the Floral Sublime -- pt. III Modernism -- ch. Eight The Flower Man -- ch. Nine Native Flowers -- ch. Ten Margaret Preston and Aboriginal Art -- ch. Eleven Celestial Sugar: Adrian Feint -- ch. Twelve Modern Flower Arranging -- ch. Thirteen Lust for Simplicity: Max Dupain -- ch. Fourteen The Human Condition.

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.

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