Picturing a Nation: The Art and Life of A.H. Fullwood

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-74223-668-1
Verlag: University of New South Wales Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 234 mm

The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863–1930) was also the most widely viewed British–Australian artist of the Heidelberg era.

Fullwood’s illustrations for the popular Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the Bulletin, as well as leading Australian and English newspapers, helped shape how settler—colonial Australia was seen both here and around the world. Meanwhile his paintings were as celebrated as those of his good friends Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. So why is Fullwood so little known today?

In this pioneering, richly illustrated biography, Gary Werskey brings Fullwood and his extraordinary career as an illustrator, painter, and war artist back to life, while casting a new light on the most fabled era in the history of Australian art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Werskey, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert Impressionismus, Post-Impressionismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Über Autor(innen)

Gary Werskey is a Harvard-trained biographer and cultural historian, who has held academic positions at Edinburgh University, Imperial College, and the University of New South Wales. For the past decade he has promoted the study of Australian history to a wider audience as a co-founder of the Blackheath History Forum. He is currently an Honorary Associate in the University of Sydney’s Department of History. His best-known work is The Visible College: A collective biography of British scientists and socialists of the 1930s.