Art in Australia : twenty-five years of Australian art.

A$100 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Edited by Sydney Ure Smith, Berteam Stevens ​ C. Lloyd Jones . Sydney : Angus ​ Robertson, 1918. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, [12], [24], [28] pp, [13] leaves of tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, head and foot of spine chipped with loss. The fourth number of Art in Australia , a record of the twenty-five years of Australian Art Loan Exhibition held at the National Art Gallery of N.S.W. Essay by Lionel Lindsay; illustrated works by Streeton, Longstaff, Hilder, Gruner, Phillips Fox, Lambert, Norman Lindsay, Conder, Rees, Cumbrae Stewart et al. Art in Australia was conceived by Sydney Ure Smith as a flagship for Australian painting and graphic art, and has become the most important resource on Australian art in the first half of the twentieth century. Robert Holden writes ‘ The magazine became a showcase of Australian printing ability and set new standards of advertising excellence … Artistic layout, quality graphic work in colour, an harmonious choice of typography and carefully worded text were all combined … ’ (Cover Up, Sydney: 1995, p. 74). For over a quarter of a century, and through its different formats, Art in Australia reviewed and discussed all aspects of Australian art exhibited in both commercial public galleries. Its longevity as a journal was due to its modern approach to design, with many covers being icons of art deco style in themselves.

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