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Author National Gallery of Australia.

Title Building the collection / Pauline Green, editor
Published Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2003

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Description viii, 408 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
regular print
Contents Chairman's foreword / Harold Mitchell -- Three short histories: -- Founding fathers ; A gallery to house the collection ... ; 'Plan, design and construct a gallery, and appoint a director' ... / Pauline Green -- James Mollison in conversation with Anne Gray -- The rise of registration in the house under construction / Warwick Reeder -- Brave new world / Alan R. Dodge -- 'Lost in Australia and not even built', the gallery acquires the Museum Set / Robert Deane -- Truly national / Anne Gray -- Conversation report / Allan Byrne -- 'No mere container': the collection display in the National Gallery of Australia / Andrew Sayers -- A twenty-year relationship: L. Gordon Darling in conversation with Roger Butler -- Art current (1972-1984) / Lucina Ward -- The years 1990 to 1997 / Betty Churcher -- Museum pieces?: the Russian Ballet collection / Christine Dixon -- Conservation report / Micheline Ford -- The collection of indigenous Australian art: beginnings and some highlights / Wally Caruana -- A collection of masterpieces / Sasha Grishin --
On the road / Jude Savage -- Decorative arts and design / Robert Bell -- Transcending time and place: collecting Southeast Asian Buddhist sculpture / Charlotte Galloway -- The region's most varied two-dimensional art from / Robyn Maxwell -- Full spectrum / Gael Newton -- The research library / Margaret Shaw -- Art in landscape ; Fiona Hall's fern garden / Harijs Piekalns -- Crystal clear: the architecture of the National Gallery / Robert Bell -- An extraordinary symphony: the Ken Tyler collection / Jane Kinsman -- Into the new millennium / Brian Kennedy -- Appendices
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes National Gallery of Australia 2003
Subject National Gallery of Australia.
National Gallery of Australia -- Catalogs.
Art, Australian.
Art museums -- Australia -- Australian Capital Territory.
Art -- Australia -- Canberra (A.C.T.)
Art museums -- Australia -- Canberra (A.C.T.) -- History.
Art museums -- Australia -- Canberra (A.C.T.)
Art, Australian -- History.
Genre/Form History.
Catalogs.
Author Green, Pauline.
National Gallery of Australia.
LC no. 2004396469
ISBN 0642542023 paperback
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