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Grace Crowley’s Contribution to Australian Modernism and Geometric Abstraction

By: Dianne Ottley

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Grace Crowley’s Contribution to Australian Modernism and Geometric Abstraction

By: Dianne Ottley

Grace Crowley has been recognized as a product of European modernism and was one of the leading innovators of geometric abstraction in Australia. Having studied in Paris in the 1920s with one of the leading art teachers, writers and theorists, André Lhote, she returned to Australia having mastered the complex mathematics and geometry of the golden section and dynamic symmetry, that had become a framework for modernism. Through her teaching of these compositional techniques at the most progressive modern art school in Sydney in the 1930s, she became a crucial influence on the group of artists now recognized as the historical forerunners to American colour-field painting introduced to Australia in the 1960s, and Australian abstraction. Through her close friendship with Anne Dangar, who played a critical role in the success of Albert Gleizes’ utopian art colony in rural France, Crowley maintained contact with mainstream European modernism and links to the Abstraction-Creation Group in Paris. During the 1940s and 1950s, Crowley worked with fellow-artist Ralph Balson, and together they developed their own style of geometric abstract art which reflected the spiritual dimensions of Kandinsky and Mondrian. Although undervalued in her own time, the sincerity and uncompromising quality of her work that transcends national boundaries, makes her one of the most important Australian women artists of her generation.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443820474

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9781443820479

Broadcasting Freedom

Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948

By: Barbara Dianne Savage

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Broadcasting Freedom

Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948

By: Barbara Dianne Savage

Tells how Blacks used radio

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412

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UNC Press Books

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0807848042

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9780807848043

Technology on the Frontier

Mining in Old Ontario

By: Dianne Newell

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Technology on the Frontier

Mining in Old Ontario

By: Dianne Newell

This book tells about a frontier region in economic transition. Its focus is the successful adoption of new technology to the particular economic and engineering circumstances associated with the newness or frontier nature of Ontario mining to 1890.

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234

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UBC Press

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0774843284

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9780774843287

Grace Crowley’s Contribution to Australian Modernism and Geometric Abstraction

By: Dianne Ottley

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Grace Crowley’s Contribution to Australian Modernism and Geometric Abstraction

Grace Crowley’s Contribution to Australian Modernism and Geometric Abstraction

Broadcasting Freedom

Broadcasting Freedom

Technology on the Frontier

Technology on the Frontier

Grace Crowley’s Contribution to Australian Modernism and Geometric Abstraction

Grace Crowley’s Contribution to Australian Modernism and Geometric Abstraction

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