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A survey of Western Australian art from 1696 / by Arthur Spartalis
Record no:
56112
Call no:
709.941 SPA
Author:
Spartalis, Arthur
Publisher:
[Subiaco, W.A.]: Arthur Spartalis Fine Art
Year:
2008
Description:
vi, 152 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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Isbn:
9780646500386
Notes:
"Appendix one: biographies of artists, photographers, metalworkers, woodworkers and sculptors".
Type:
Book
Abstract:
The role that artists and their works have played in the state's socio-economic development: Many early-colonial artists were immigrants skilled in surveying and lithography, whereas in the 1890s gold rushes, the colony attracted many bona-fide artists
from the eastern colonies. The twentieth century saw a professional approach to arts administration as well as the creation of influential private galleries.
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Contents:
Introduction -- Pre-European settlement -- The Colonial Period -- Federation -- The modern era -- List of illustrations -- Biographies of artists, photographers, metalworkers, woodworkers and sculptors -- Catalogue of the WA Society of Arts Exhibition,
1896 -- Catalogue of the exhibition of Western Australian Art 1826-1937 -- Catalogue of the Western Australian Jubilee Exhibition of Paintings 1951 -- Influential galleries and personalities -- Bibliography -- Index of artists.
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