| Description |
158 pages : colour illustrations, ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Australian Artists And Cosmopolitan Currents -- The lessons of imaginative design -- ̀Enigmatic goddess and mortal woman': the Symbolist female -- The impact of Rodin: ̀great dreams in marble' -- Rupert Bunny: myth and the occult -- Sarah Bernhardt: the ̀serpent of the old Nile' -- ̀The ideal somnambulist' -- Madness and the Symbolist female subject -- Symbolism and Aesthetic beauty -- Charles Douglas Richardson: the Symbolist as the ̀seeker of souls' -- Death and angelic allusions -- Brittany and the Arcadian vision -- ch. 2 Dreams Of An Antipodean Arcady -- The sunny south: the landscape as Aesthetic ideal -- Dreams of the bohemian idyll: Charles Conder and his impact -- Sydney Long: Arcadian myth and the decorative landscape -- Artful atmospheres: Symbolism and photography -- George Lambert, Hugh Ramsay and the return to Europe |
| Summary |
Catalogue to accompany exhibition investigating two main streams of Symbolist art in Australia: works by artists who trained or lived overseas and drew directly from European Symbolist genres; and works by artists in Australia who referenced Symbolism to define a local experience |
| Notes |
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 May - 29 July 2012 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art Gallery of New South Wales -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Australian -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Australian -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
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Symbolism (Art movement) -- Australia -- Exhibitions.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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| ISBN |
1741740762 (hbk.) |
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9781741740769 (hbk.) |
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