Useless beauty : flowers and Australian art / by Ann Elias.
Published / Created:
Newcastle upon tyne : Cambridge scholars pub, 2015.Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Physical Description:
xiii, 244 pages, 52 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Background -- ch. One Flowers and the Nineteenth Century -- ch. Two Premodern, Modern and Ultramodern Art -- pt. II The Art Establishment -- ch. Three Useless Beauty -- ch. Four The Outsider: Ellis Rowan -- ch. Five Defining Femininity -- ch. Six Flowers and Defiance: Hans Heysen -- ch. Seven WWI and the Floral Sublime -- pt. III Modernism -- ch. Eight The Flower Man -- ch. Nine Native Flowers -- ch. Ten Margaret Preston and Aboriginal Art -- ch. Eleven Celestial Sugar: Adrian Feint -- ch. Twelve Modern Flower Arranging -- ch. Thirteen Lust for Simplicity: Max Dupain -- ch. Fourteen The Human Condition.
Subject Terms:
Painting, Australian -- 20th century. | Flowers in art. | Art, Australasian. | Art, Australasian. | Flowers in art. | Painting, Australian.