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Dupain, Max (1911-1992), Sunbaker, 1937, photograph, 37.7 x 43.2cm. Image courtesy National Gallery of Australia. 2007, Dupain's Sydney Opera House, Exhibition Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney....
Harry Seidler (1923–2006) is an icon of Australian architecture. Dupain, Max (1911-1992), Australia Square, George Street, Sydney by architects Harry Seidler & Associates, October 1968. For more than 50 years, Seidler produced distinctive, bold mo...
Cable Beach, Broome, north-west Kimberley Coast, Western Australia. Most of Australia's population lives close to the coastline and the beach has long occupied a special place in the Australian identity. Based on this definition, the Coastal Studies Uni...
Harold Pierce Cazneaux (1878-1953) is regarded as Australia's leading pictorial or art photographer. Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953), Spirit of Endurance, 1937, photograph, 510 x 635mm. Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953), The quest: portrait of Rainbow Cazneaux, 1...
By the 1930s, modern style flourished in retail, entertainment, pubs, milk bars, modern swimming pools and fashion. Australia’s reception to modernism is a complex story of spasmodic cultural transformation led by avant-garde experiments and the cr...
Cotton, Olive (1911-2003), Tea cup ballet , 1935, photograph, 37.3 x 29.6cm. Image courtesy of Art Gallery of NSW. O Cotton & S McInerney, Olive Cotton: photographer, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1995. ...
Employing dream imagery, poetry and precarious juxtapositions, Australian artists in the 1930s and early 1940s responded to European surrealists and were part of an international surrealist movement - 'in all its clarity'. Many of Australia's best known a...
Max Dupain & Associates (more info)
Biographic information on photographers Max Dupain and Olive Cotton and others, mainly from the 1950s. Read about the history of Max Dupain, and view some of the works online.
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design Nurreegoo: The Art and Life of Ron Hurley 1946,Äì2002 The Cypress and the Crow: 50 Years of Iranian Animation...
2007, Dupain's Sydney Opera House, Exhibition Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 2004, Max Dupain – Dupain's work in the context of Man Ray's influence, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Crombie, Isobel (2004), Body culture: Max Dupain, photogr...
> Sydney Olympic Park Home of the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, major social and sporting venue. <br/> <br/>This exhibition provides a historical snapshot of the evolution of Australiaâ~™s identity now intrinsically centred on beach culture. ...
Cairns Regional Gallery >Cnr Abbott & Shields Streets >Cairns >QLD 4870 >07 4046 4800 >http://www.cairnsregionalgallery.com.au Tour De Force Tom Moore, Ian Mowbray, Tim Horn, Jacqueline Gropp, Neil Roberts, Patricia Roan, Deb Jones, Nicholas Folland to 3...
Max Dupain (1911-1992) Male Dancers from the Ballet Russes silver gelatin photograph (2) bears studio stamp verso (each) i) 20 x 24cm ii) 24 x 20cm > Preview:>Wednesday 24 February 2010 9am - 8pm>Thursday 25 February 2010 9am - 5pm>Friday 26 February 2010...
Dickerson Gallery Melbourne >44 Oxford Street >Collingwood >VIC 3066 >03 9416 0031 >http://www.dickersongallery.com.au Lindsay Harris In conjunction with emerge ART SPACE, Western Australia to 20 Mar An Interpretation of this Title: Nietzsche, Darwin an...
"Camoufleur" : Artist - Regina Walter, at Milperra Bridge Camoufleur derives from the historical material of camouflage defence by artists working at Bankstown airport during WW11. Artists such as Max Dupain and Frank Hinder were among the Sydney Camoufl...
irn=71150&search=wine&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=78056&search=wine&site_id=3 > 87/72 Wine carrier, burgundy and black plastic, decor, Australia, 1986 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=78056&...
irn=149512&search=germany&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=246716&search=germany&site_id=3 > H6835 Mace, polished steel, unknown maker, [Germany], 1500-1599 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=24671...
irn=379571&search=australian+modernism&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=150303&search=australian+modernism&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=379016&search=australian+modernism&site_id=3 ...
irn=319454&search=cotton&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=147225&search=cotton&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=371604&search=cotton&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection...
irn=11376&search=taylor&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=207900&search=taylor&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=48982&search=taylor&site_id=3 > 85/490 Photographic lens, Taylor, Taylor &...
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