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Streeton is the first major book on the artist to date. With essays by authors including Tim Bonyhady, Jane Clark and Roger Benjamin, as well as museum curators, the book features his much-loved paintings as well as works from Streetons international career with his paintings of Egypt, Venice, England, Italy and the battlefields of First World War France, covering his practice from 1885 to 1940.Streeton explores the, at times, conflicted drives that underlie the artists work, particularly the tension between his youthful embrace of challenging new ideas in art and his later turning to an even earlier interest in the conventions of the academy. Streeton explores the artists return to Australia in the 1920s after two decades in London and consider the inclusions and exclusions from the nationalist narratives and conservative commentary which arose around Streetons practice, but which was not endorsed by Streeton himself.A key focus is Streetons deep concern about the destruction of our cities, Australias forests and the degradation of our waterways, heralding our conservation and climate-change debates today.Table of ContentsForeword – Michael Brand Streetons impressionism (introduction) – Wayne Tunnicliffe The academy vs the new painting – Wayne Tunnicliffe 9 x 5 exhibition – Allison Goudie Melbourne pastoral – Jane Clark Sydney land of passionfruit and poetry – Denise Mimmocchi Further afield (Western Sydney)- Wayne Tunnicliffe A bush idyll: Streetons Symbolism – Denise Mimmocchi Streeton in Cairo – Emma Kindred England and the academic machines – Wayne Tunnicliffe Australia felix – Nick Yelverton Streeton in Venice – Roger Benjamin Streetons war – Andrew Yip Golden cities – Hannah Hutchison Pastoral Australia – Wayne Tunnicliffe Hidden Streeton – Paula Dredge/Simon Ives Beware the axe! – Tim Bonyhady Streeton in his own words Notes / Bibliography List of works Acknowledgments/Contributors Index
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