Format:
x, 254 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781472426369
Series Statement:
British art: histories and interpretations since 1700
Content:
British art for Australia, 1860-1953 : an introduction -- 'Work that would meet the taste of the colonists' : British art for antipodean Britons -- 'The civilization of the people' : Australian national galleries and civic humanism -- 'A more extended area for English art' : the British world and the imperial art market -- 'The best equipped agent, with as free a hand ': advisors and selectors of British art for Australia -- 'A sop to Cerberus' : collecting the British old masters in Australia -- 'One of the many colonial delusions' : Australian national galleries and British landscape painting -- 'No highly desirable Pre-Raphaelite picture should be spared from home' : the antipodean pursuit of a British acme -- 'The gap that is steadily widening' : the acquisition of 'insular' British modernism by Australian national galleries, 1900-1953
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429423666
Language:
English
Keywords:
National Gallery of Victoria
;
National Gallery of South Australia
;
National Gallery of Australia
;
Art Gallery of New South Wales
;
Großbritannien
;
Kunst
;
Kunstkauf
;
Geschichte 1860-1953
;
Australien
;
Großbritannien
;
Museum
;
Kunst
;
Sammeln
;
Geschichte 1860-1953
Author information:
Potter, Matthew C.
