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I Buried My Dolls in the Garden
I Buried My Dolls in the Garden presents a biography of Elizabeth Blair Barber, together with full-colour reproductions of selected works from the oeuvre of this remarkable painter, for whom recognition has come late, but certainly. Jenny Mills examines Blair Barber's artistic development from one of Perth's early modernists to an exponent of the theories of 'significant form'; her obsession with the South West forests, her spiritual home; the compassion and concern for 'a fair go' for all that led her to establish the successful Cremorne Art Gallery; and the enigmatic personality of a woman who shunned the rules of polite society but embraced the discipline of art and her second love, the theatre. Mills writes with insight and perspective, looking beyond the surfaces of her mother's life in the same way that Blair Barber sought truth in her painting.
Bauhaus on the Swan
"German artist Elise Blumann arrived in Western Australia in 1938, having fled Nazi Germany in 1934. With her husband and two sons, she set up home on the banks of the Swan River and began to paint. Over the next ten years she produced a series of portraits set against the river and the Indian Ocean, and pursued an anlysis of plant forms ... to brilliant effect. In this study Sally Quin traces Blumann's formative student years in Berlin and her first decade in Australia, where the artist reinvented her working method in response to the intense light and colour of the local landscape ... Blumann was a conservative modernist, but the Perth art scene was not prepared for her expressive style, and when she exhibited for the first time in 1944 her art was met with bewilderment. The book considers attitudes to modernism in Perth and the influence on local culture of European refugees and emigrés newly arrived in the city ... Quin establishes Blumann as a significant figure in the story of Australian modernism"--Publisher's description.
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19
Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians. The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects. The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights act...
The Timber People
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