Research Catalog

Title

Printed images by Australian artists 1885-1955 / Roger Butler.

Author

Butler, Roger, 1948-

Publication

Canberra, A.C.T. : National Gallery of Australia, 2007.

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Additional Authors

National Gallery of Australia.

Description

xv, 328 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports.; 30 cm.

Summary

The history of printmaking in Australia.

Alternative Title

Printed images by Australian artists, 1885-1955

Subject

• Printmakers > Australia > History
• Prints > Australia > History
• Prints, Australian > 19th century
• Prints, Australian > 20th century

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The painter-printmaking movement. Early painter-etchers in Australia; Working overseas: Etching, lithography and monotypes in London and Paris; The artistic lithograph in Australia; Prints and photographs: Shared concerns; The Australian PainterEtchers Society -- The importance of design: prints, posters and books. Early posters and lithography; The poster style; Blamire Young and the artistic poster in Melbourne; An Australian style; Artists' woodblock prints; Australia and Japan: Links in print; Australian artists in Japan; Woodblocks: Printed in the Japanese manner; Travel posters; Wood-engraving and the art of the fine book; Exemplars: Margaret Preston and Thea Proctor; The linocut and Sydney women artists; Melbourne manner; Printed in magazines; The Grosvenor School and colour linocuts -- War, Depression, Anxiety. World War I; Posters; Responses to the war; World War II; Posters; Enemy aliens; Army life; At home with war; Printmakers and politics; The Great Depression; The linocut; Activists; The New Theatre; These are my people; Anxiety in war and its aftermath; Lithography, a democratic art form; Freedom of expression; Cold War anxiety and the search for meaning.

ISBN

• 9780642542045 (hbk.)
• 064254204X (hbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library