ISBN |
9781925432398 |
Title |
Brave new world : Australia 1930s / edited by Isobel Crombie and Elena Taylor. |
Published |
Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. |
©2017. |
Description |
x, 197 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm. |
Notes |
Essays by Charles Pickett, Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Paola Di Trocchio, Peter Sheridan, John McPhee, Isobel Crombie, Rachel Fensham, Jeanette Hoorn, Ian McLean, Myles Russell-Cook, Elena Taylor. |
Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Beginning with the Great Depression and ending with the Second World War, the 1930s was characterised by both optimism and despair. Brave New World: Australia 1930s presents a fresh look at this turbulent decade and considers the engagement of artists with the great issues of the time: the Depression and its aftermath; nationalism and the body culture movement; growing calls for Indigenous rights; the celebration of technological progress, and its antithesis in the nostalgia for pastoralism; the "new woman"; and increasing anxiety at the possibility of another world war. Featuring thematic essays by leading writers, Brave New World considers a broad range of artistic production; painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, decorative arts, fashion, architecture, commercial art, dance, film and design; to show the rich diversity of this fascinating and contested decade. |
Exhibitions note |
Published for the exhibition Brave New World: Australia 1930s, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, Melbourne, 14 July 2017-15 October 2017 |
Subjects |
Art, Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions |
Exhibition catalogs |
Modernism (Art) |
Art -- Australia -- Exhibitions |
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Australia -- Exhibitions |
Nineteen thirties |
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions |
Genre |
Exhibition catalogues |
Added Names |
Crombie, Isobel editor, author. |
Taylor, Elena editor, author. |
Pickett, Charles, 1950- author. |
Butler-Bowdon, Caroline author. |
Di Trocchio, Paola author. |
Sheridan, Peter, 1945- author. |
McPhee, John (John A.) author. |
Fensham, Rachel author. |
Hoorn, Jeanette author. |
McLean, Ian, 1952- author. |
Russell-Cook, Myles author. |
Added Corporate Names |
National Gallery of Victoria issuing body. |