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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463439403321

Autore

Ottley Dianne

Titolo

Grace Crowley's contribution to Australian modernism and geometric abstraction [[electronic resource] /] / by Dianne Ottley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010

ISBN

1-4438-2047-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Disciplina

709.04052

Soggetti

Modernism (Art) - Australia

Art, Abstract - Australia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

Grace Crowley has been recognized as a product of European modernism and was one of the leading innovators of geometric abstraction in Australia. Having studied in Paris in the 1920's with one of the leading art teachers, writers and theorists, André Lhote, she returned to Australia having mastered the complex mathematics and geometry of the golden section and dynamic symmetry, that had become a framework for modernism. Through her teaching of these compositional techniques at the most progres...