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Author Speck, Catherine.

Title Painting ghosts : Australian women artists in wartime / Catherine Speck
Published St Leonards, NSW : Craftsman House, [2003]
©2003

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Description 239 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Contents Introduction: War and peace. The First World War: 1. Official war art: where are the women? -- 2. Behind the lines -- 3. Women on the home front -- 4. Grace Cossington Smith and the politics of war -- 5. Picturing men making history -- 6. War's end: the aftermath. The Second World War: 7. The Second World War: women artists respond -- 8. Nora Heysen's view from the Pacific region -- 9. Stella Bowen's view from Britain -- 10. Sybil Craig's view from the home front -- 11. Hope and tears, love, romance and lots of hard work -- 12. Peace at last -- Postscript: Wendy Sharpe in East Timor
Summary Examines the art and life stories of numerous women in the Second World War including Grace Cossington Smith, Dora Meeson, Margaret Preston, Jacqui Hicks, Dorrit Black and Amie Kingston. Some women became official war artists producing an alternative set of national images every bit as compelling as those of their male counterparts
Analysis Painting
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 205-227
Subject Smith, Grace Cossington.
Rae, Isobel, 1902-
Rix Nicholas, Hilda, 1884-1961.
Rae, Iso
Women artists.
Art, Australian.
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Australia.
Women artists -- Australia -- 20th century.
Art and war.
War in art.
Women and war -- Australia.
War artists -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
Painting, Australian -- 20th century.
Women -- Australia -- History.
Women artists -- Australia.
ISBN 1877004227