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Michael O'Connell

The Lost Modernist

By: Harriet Edquist

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Born in Cumbria in 1898 Michael O?Connell saw action on the Western Front in WWI before moving to Australia in 1920. Over the following 17 years he became a critical member of the burgeoning Modernist movement in Melbourne primarily through his innovative and dynamic textiles. First exhibited in 1930 his hand blockprinted fabrics revolutionised Australian textile design, which at the time was an entirely amateur affair, and laid the foundations of its future development. On his return to the UK in 1937, O?Connell became a key figure in contemporary textile design, producing fabrics for EdinburghWeavers in 1938 and then for Heals during the 1940s and 1950s. He was involved in a number of progressive government-initiated projects for schools and public institutions in the optimistic years of post-war Britain, including the celebrated wall hangings for the Country Pavilion at the Festival of Britain in 1951. During the 1960s until his death in 1976 O?Connell kept pace with contemporary art practice from his studio-home in Perry Green Hertfordshire, producing large-scale, innovative 'textile murals? in his unique combination of batik and resist dyeing. The Lost Modernist illustrates and discusses over100 works from Australian and British public and private collections within the context of 20th century design history and the framework of O?Connell?s life.

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1877096385

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9781877096389

A Skilled Hand and Cultivated Mind

A Guide to the Architecture and Art of RMIT University

By: Harriet Edquist,Elizabeth M. Grierson

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A Skilled Hand and Cultivated Mind

A Guide to the Architecture and Art of RMIT University

By: Harriet Edquist,Elizabeth M. Grierson

A Skilled Hand and Cultivated Mind: A Guide to the Architecture and Art of RMIT University records the importance of art and architecture in the University's history, as well as charting some of the changes in Australian art and architecture over the last 125 years. Starting with the Francis Ormond building, the University's first home, the book tours the campuses. This second edition incorporates the new Design Hub and the Swanston Academic Building. This is not a book designed to sit on a bookshelf or coffee table. It is a guide to your explorations of RMIT, to help you understand the history and significance of the buildings and the artworks that have been part of the lives of many students and staff, and to encourage you to dig deeper to discover hidden treasures.

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328

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1921426985

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9781921426988

Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond

Transforming Education Through Art, Design and Architecture

By: Philip Goad,Ann Stephen,Andrew McNamara,Harriet Edquist,Isabel Wünsche

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Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond

Transforming Education Through Art, Design and Architecture

By: Philip Goad,Ann Stephen,Andrew McNamara,Harriet Edquist,Isabel Wünsche

Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education through Art, Design and Architecture presents an extraordinary new Australasian cultural history. It is a migrant and refugee story: from 1930, the arrival of so many emigre, internee and refugee educators helped to transform art, architecture and design in Australia and New Zealand. Fifteen thematic essays and twenty individual case studies bring to light a tremendous amount of new archival material in order to show how these innovative educators, exiled from Nazism, introduced Bauhaus ideas and models to a new world. As their Bauhaus model spanned art, architecture and design, the book provides a unique cross-disciplinary, emigre history of art education in Australia and New Zealand. It offers a remarkable and little-known chapter in the wider Bauhaus venture, which has multiple legacies and continues to inform our conceptions of progressive education, creativity and the role of art and design in the wider community. A co-production by MUP with Power Publications http: //www.powerpublications.com.au/

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Miegunyah Press

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0522875629

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9780522875621

The Life and Writings of Mrs. Harriet Newell

By: Harriet Newell,American Sunday-School Union Committee

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The Life and Writings of Mrs. Harriet Newell

By: Harriet Newell,American Sunday-School Union Committee

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