Making Australian art 1916-49 : Sydney Ure Smith, patron and publisher

著者

• Underhill, Nancy

書誌事項

Making Australian art 1916-49 : Sydney Ure Smith, patron and publisher

Nancy D. H. Underhill

Oxford, 1991

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-301) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

To his many friends, Sydney Ure Smith was "Dear old Syd"; to others he was a statesman of the arts. Some found Ure Smith too conservative, others saw him as too liberal. Yet all agreed that until his death in 1949 his obsession with quality publishing, promotion of innovative commercial art, support for the visual arts, and patronage of many artists made him a powerful force in Australia's cultural life. In assessing his achievements, Underhill analyzes how Ure Smith's enthusiasm "to make Australia progress" resulted in seemingly paradoxical tastes and loyalties. In this unconventional biography, Underhill has been intentionally discursive, providing a detailed canvas of the Sydney social, publishing, and artistic worlds to make sense of Ure Smith's influence. Her provocative study of this remarkable man opens up new perspectives on the Australian art and publishing worlds from 1916 to 1949, a period of conflicting currents as "modern" met "traditional" (usually British) in Australian art. Ure Smith was an essential nexus in this interplay.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA20726057
• ISBN:
  • 0195532376
• LCCN: 92177401
• 出版国コード: at
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 311 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : N5296.S65
  • DC20 : 709/.2
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Smith, Sydney Ure, 1887-1949
  • LCSH : Art patrons -- Australia -- Biography
  • LCSH : Art publishing -- Australia -- Biography