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Author Ottley, Dianne

Title Grace Crowley's Contribution to Australian Modernism and Geometric Abstraction
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010

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Description 1 online resource (211 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary 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 progres ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Crowley, Grace, 1890-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Crowley, Grace, 1890-1979 fast
Subject Women painters -- Australia
Modernism (Art) -- Australia
Painting, Abstract -- Australia
Constructivism (Art) -- Australia
History of art -- art & design styles.
Art & design styles: Cubism.
Individual artists, art monographs.
ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Constructivism (Art)
Modernism (Art)
Painting, Abstract
Women painters
Australia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010533636
ISBN 9781443820479
1443820474