| Description |
xii, 271 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
1. The European crisis. Ursula Hoff and the Hamburger School; Franz Philipp and the Vienna School; Exile and the rescue of German scholarship -- 2. Transitions: London 1933-1945. The 'dismissed savants' and art history's transformation in England; Ursula Hoff in England; Exodus; Joseph Burke: a minimus incipe -- 3. Relocation to the antipodes. The 'Cinderella' of the Dominions'; Making connections; The Dunera Scholars and Melbourne's Europeanisation -- 4. The remaking of the National Gallery of Victoria. Daryl Lindsay and the genesis of a gallery; Ursula Hoff: museology and masterpieces -- 5. Art history scholarship in the antipodes. Joseph Burke's Arcadia; Franz Philipp and the ideals of scholarship -- 6. The centre of the periphery: Melbourne in the 1950s. Art in Melbourne: influences and responses; Cultural courtships and educational partnerships; A subterranean influence -- 7. New blood and old. Bernard Smith: culture and capitalism; Eric Westbrook and the spectacle of culture; Into the 1960s: tradition and modernity |
| Summary |
"This book throws new light on a recent period of cultural transformation when Europe's 'outsiders' became 'insiders' of post-war Australian society and rapidly facilitated progress in the arts and academia." -- Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-266) and index |
| Subject |
Hoff, Ursula.
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Philipp, Franz A
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Burke, Joseph Sir, 1913-1992
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Art historians -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
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Art -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- 20th century.
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Art and society -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- 20th century.
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Art -- Australia -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
9781740971652 (paperback) |
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