Margaret Cilento's 1951 work The immigrants is profiled in an essay by Lynne Seear, with an introduction by Julie Ewington. Also illustrated are several of Cilento's other works, including paintings, etchings and sketches from the late forties and early fifties - around the period when she returned to Australia after studying art in New York and Paris.
Explores more than 70 Impressionist and Realist paintings from the Metropolitan's collection. It presents works by some of America's foremost artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Whistler, Sargent, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, and Mary Cassatt.
A full colour book accompanying the first major retrospective of work by William Robinson, one of Australia's most distinguished contemporary landscape painters. It features more than 80 paintings and works on paper drawn from private and public collections in Australia and New Zealand. Through essays by leading Australian curators and writers the book traces the important shifts in Robinson's art over the past three decades. Contributors include Michael Brand, Hannah Fink, Victoria Hammond, Deborah Hart, John Murphy and Lynne Seear. It also includes previously unpublished photographs of the artist and the landscape by prominent Queensland photographer, Richard Stringer.
Brought to Light II: Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006 includes more than 60 commissioned texts on key works in the Gallery's Australian collection, including painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography, printmaking, glass, ceramics and textiles. Eminent curators, art historians and scholars, have contributed to the publication. Sebastian Smee explores Fred Williams's 'Australian landscape' series of the 1960s and 1970s, curator John Murphy traces the life of the Australian adventurer-writer Ernestine Hill in his discussion of Sam Fullbrook's 1970 portrait, and the assemblage art of Rosalie Gascoigne is discussed by writer Mary Eagle. Brisbane-based art theorist Rex Butler examines the Australian landscape tradition in the work of Queensland artist William Robinson, anthropologist Howard Morphy explores the creativity of recent Yolngu art from Arnhem Land, curator Hetti Perkins contributes a study of Michael Riley's photographic and cinematic oeuvre, and Queensland Art Gallery curators Suhanya Raffel and Bruce McLean provide insight into recent works by Fiona Hall and the Hermannsburg Potters respectively. Features over 500 illustrations (many full-page).
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