British art for Australia, 1860-1953 the acquisition of artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian national galleries / Matthew C. Potter.

Author/creator Potter, Matthew C.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
Descriptionx, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Subjects
Art, British.
Art--Collectors and collecting. --Australia.
Art museums--Acquisitions. --Australia.
Nationalism and art.
National characteristics, British, in art.
Australia--Relations. --Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations. --Australia.

Series[British art : histories and interpretations since 1700]
Contents British art for Australia, 1860-1953 : an introduction -- 'Work that would meet the taste of the Colonists' : British art for Antipodean Britons -- 'The civilization of the people' : Australian national galleries and civic humanism -- 'A more extended area for English art' : the British world and the imperial art market -- 'The best equipped agent, with as free a hand ': advisors and selectors of British art for Australia -- 'A sop to Cerberus' : collecting the British old masters in Australia -- 'One of the many Colonial Delusions' : Australian national galleries and British landscape painting -- 'No highly desirable Pre-Raphaelite picture should be spared from home' : the Antipodean pursuit of a British acme -- 'The gap that is steadily widening' : the acquisition of 'insular' British modernism by Australian national galleries, 1900-1953.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018042793
ISBN9781472426369 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBNebook

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