I Buried My Dolls in the Garden: The Life and Works of Elizabeth Blair Barber

Jenny Mills
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I Buried My Dolls in the Garden presents a biography of Elizabeth Blair Barber, together with full-colour reproductions of selected works from the oeuvre of this remarkable painter, for whom recognition has come late, but certainly.
Jenny Mills examines Blair Barber’s artistic development from one of Perth’s early modernists to an exponent of the theories of ‘significant form’; her obsession with the South West forests, her spiritual home; the compassion and concern for ‘a fair go’ for all that led her to establish the successful Cremorne Art Gallery; and the enigmatic personality of a woman who shunned the rules of polite society but embraced the discipline of art and her second love, the theatre. Mills writes with insight and perspective, looking beyond the surfaces of her mother’s life in the same way that Blair Barber sought truth in her painting. pp. 273 colour illusts. First Edition. #0520 A SUPERIOR COPY

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AuthorJenny Mills
PublisherUniversity of Western Australia Press, Nedlands
Year Published1999
Book Condition

FINE

Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket

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