| Description |
136 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 30 cm |
| Summary |
This book on the work of Jeffrey Smart is the first since his virtual retirement from painting in 2011. It illuminates the vision of the most celebrated of Australian expatriate artists, from his beginnings in Adelaide until his last major composition painted in Italy where he has lived for the last five decades. Adelaide, where Smart was born in 1921, was where his essential evolution as an artist took shape. His early fascination for its grid-like urban landscape was a perfect basis for an ongoing celebration of the phenomena of highways, traffic signs, trucks, transmitters and brutish modular architecture in post-war Europe; aspects of the modern world others found ugly but which he declared beautiful |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Accompanies on exhibition of the same name presented by the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 12 October to 14 December 2012 and Carrick Hill, Springfield, 10 October 2012 to end February 2013 in partnership with TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 21 December 2012 to 31 March 2013 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Audience |
General |
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Tertiary/Undergraduate |
| Subject |
Smart, Jeffrey, 1921-2013.
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Smart, Jeffrey, 1921-2013 -- Exhibitions.
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Artists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Artists.
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Painters -- Australia -- Biography.
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Painters.
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Painting -- Australia -- Exhibitions.
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Painting -- Australia -- 20th century.
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Painting -- Australia -- 21st century.
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Painting -- Australia.
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Painting, Australian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Painting, Australian -- 20th century.
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Painting, Australian -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
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Painting, Australian -- 21st century.
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Painting, Australian.
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Painting.
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Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Sound recordings.
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Biographies.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Pearce, Barry.
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Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, host institution
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Carrick Hill (Springfield, S.A. : House), host institution
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TarraWarra Museum of Art, host institution
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| ISBN |
9781743051238 (hbk.) |
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