Printed Images by Australian Artists, 1885-1955

by Roger Butler

This volume follows printmaking through a seventy-year period, from the latter part of the ninteenth 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' seach for meaning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 064254204X
• ISBN13: 9780642542045
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 5.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.6" x 11.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher