Printed: images in colonial Australia 1801 – 1901 [with] Printed: images by Australian artists 1885 – 1955 [and] Printed: images by Australian Artists 1942 – 2020

A$450 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2007 2021. Three volumes, quarto, pictorial boards in dustjackets, light handling wear to the dustjacket of the second volume, a few spots of foxing, otherwise fine, pp. 294; 328; 416, extensively illustrated in colour, a very good set. The complete set of Roger Butler s comprehensive survey of printmaking in Australia. The first volume : This volume follows printmaking through a seventy-year period, from the latter part of the nineteenth century as the print, freed from its reproductive bonds, became a vehicle for pure artistic expression; through the great social and political traumas of the first half of the twentieth century, when the print was co-opted to carry a political message; and concludes in the immediate postwar years with prints that signal the artists search for meaning and an awareness of self the publisher The second volume : ‘This volume follows printmaking through a seventy-year period, from the latter part of the nineteenth century as the print, freed from its reproductive bonds, became a vehicle for pure artistic expression; through the great social and political traumas of the first half of the twentieth century, when the print was co-opted to carry a political message; and concludes in the immediate postwar years with prints that signal the artists’ search for meaning and an awareness of self’ – the publisher The third volume : Printed: Images by Australian artists 1942 — 2020 traces the history of printmaking b

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