European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870–1970 in the Australian National Gallery (First Edition)
LLOYD, Michael & Michael DESMOND. European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870–1970 in the Australian National Gallery. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1992.
Quarto. Original black leatherette. Colour illustrated dust jacket. viii, 431 pp., illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white plates. First edition. Illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white plates. First edition.
When the Australian National Gallery opened its doors in Canberra in 1982, it did so with one of the most ambitious and deliberately assembled collections of modern European and American art anywhere in the Asia-Pacific region — a collection built with a seriousness of purpose that announced, unmistakably, that Australia intended to participate in the international conversation about modernism as something more than a spectator. This catalogue, compiled a decade after opening by curators Michael Lloyd and Michael Desmond, is the permanent scholarly record of that collection as it stood at its first maturity: Monet and Cézanne, Pollock and Calder, and the full arc of a century in which Western art remade itself entirely. For students, researchers, and collectors of modern art, it remains an essential reference — and as a document of Australian institutional ambition, it has a significance that extends well beyond the works it describes.
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LLOYD, Michael & Michael DESMOND. European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870–1970 in the Australian National Gallery. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1992.
Quarto. Original black leatherette. Colour illustrated dust jacket. viii, 431 pp., illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white plates. First edition. Illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white plates. First edition.
When the Australian National Gallery opened its doors in Canberra in 1982, it did so with one of the most ambitious and deliberately assembled collections of modern European and American art anywhere in the Asia-Pacific region — a collection built with a seriousness of purpose that announced, unmistakably, that Australia intended to participate in the international conversation about modernism as something more than a spectator. This catalogue, compiled a decade after opening by curators Michael Lloyd and Michael Desmond, is the permanent scholarly record of that collection as it stood at its first maturity: Monet and Cézanne, Pollock and Calder, and the full arc of a century in which Western art remade itself entirely. For students, researchers, and collectors of modern art, it remains an essential reference — and as a document of Australian institutional ambition, it has a significance that extends well beyond the works it describes.
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LLOYD, Michael & Michael DESMOND. European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870–1970 in the Australian National Gallery. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1992.
Quarto. Original black leatherette. Colour illustrated dust jacket. viii, 431 pp., illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white plates. First edition. Illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white plates. First edition.
When the Australian National Gallery opened its doors in Canberra in 1982, it did so with one of the most ambitious and deliberately assembled collections of modern European and American art anywhere in the Asia-Pacific region — a collection built with a seriousness of purpose that announced, unmistakably, that Australia intended to participate in the international conversation about modernism as something more than a spectator. This catalogue, compiled a decade after opening by curators Michael Lloyd and Michael Desmond, is the permanent scholarly record of that collection as it stood at its first maturity: Monet and Cézanne, Pollock and Calder, and the full arc of a century in which Western art remade itself entirely. For students, researchers, and collectors of modern art, it remains an essential reference — and as a document of Australian institutional ambition, it has a significance that extends well beyond the works it describes.
A pristine copy, fine in an unclipped fine dust jacket.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000455
