The Quarantined Culture
Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913 1939
In 1913 the Australian press displayed a cosmopolitan openness to the culture of the modern world. By 1919, however, Australia had become an inward-looking society bent on keeping the outside world out - a quarantined culture. This book looks at the impact of the First World War on Australian culture, focussing on reactions to modernist art. John Williams argues that the creation of the Anzac legend, the back-to-the-land movement, notions of racial superiority and the mythology of the masculine nation were reactionary and anti-modern. Reflecting this, Australian pioneers of post-impressionism were ignored in favour of more traditional artists…
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- ISBN: 978-0-521-47713-0
- EAN: 9780521477130
- Produktnummer: 6384591
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 464 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 464
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