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Brave new world : Australia 1930s / edited by Isobel Crombie and Elena Taylor.

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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.
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