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dc.contributor.authorDuggan, Laurence
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-15T03:32:02Z
dc.date.available2019-03-15T03:32:02Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.issn1031-461X
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10314610508682929
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/97277
dc.description.abstractI must admit to mild alarm on first scanning John Slater's book. The text shares a large number of references including some relatively esoteric titles with my own book, Ghost Nation, published in 2001, and yet this book does not appear in the bibliography. As it turns out, I need not have worried. While my study looks at a range of art and architectural practices in terms of imagined space, Slater's volume is a relentlessly empirical reading of artworks as illustrations of social conditions, deciphering the images as supporting evidence for history. Yet, it is still a useful, reasonably priced book. Slater's description of the various works along with the illustrations themselves includes many items I haven't seen previously. The book functions well as a catalogue of urban and, as Slater argues, suburban images. He has some good observations about the place of metropolitan imagery in the art of the period, noting that only five per cent of images shown at the Victorian Artists' Society between 191 9 and l 94 5 were urban. Clearly, the attitudes of those like C.E.W. Bean that cities were places of social (and racial) degradation held sway in main­stream Australian art of the period, while the bush functioned as the national 'imaginary'.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMUP
dc.publisher.placeUniversity of Melbourne
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom367
dc.relation.ispartofpageto368
dc.relation.ispartofissue126
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Historical Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume36
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2103
dc.titleReview of 'Through Artists' Eyes: Australian Suburbs and Their Cities 1919-1945', by John Slater.
dc.typeReport
dc.type.descriptionU2 - Reviews/Reports
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.rights.copyright© 2005 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Australian Historical Studies on 27 Jan 2009, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/10314610508682929
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gro.griffith.authorDuggan, Laurence J.


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