Add this copy of Artists of the Australian Gold Rush to cart. $24.41, very good condition, Sold by Lawrence Jones rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nobby Beach, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 1977 by Lansdowne Editions.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Good Plus jacket. 4to. xiv + 214 pp, 32 pp of colour plates, b&w illustrations throughout, notes, references, index, decorated end-papers. Original cloth boards in jacket. Spine faded, page edges foxed, minor edge wear to jacket. Ex-publisher's library (Rigby/Weldon) with their stamps/wrtten on front pastedown. From the blurb, 'The physical, social and political upheavals of Australia's gold decade, the 1850s, created a period of exuberant creativity that was to shake up the transplanted colonial culture and redirect it towards a new cultural order. The Gold Rush lured the venturesome and excited the spirited, compelling them to explore the unfamiliar and unpredictable environment physically, intellectually and aesthetically. In this book, the author interweaves the characters of the artists with the events of the time, achieving a composite tapestry of this dynamic period, significant to both those interested in art and in history. ' Note: the book weighs more than 1 kilo.
Add this copy of Artists of the Australian Gold Rush to cart. $37.54, very good condition, Sold by Lawrence Jones rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nobby Beach, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 1977 by Lansdowne Editions.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to. HEAVY. xiii, 214 pages, colour plates, b/w illustrations throughout, references, index. Prelims, endpages and page edges foxed. Decorated end-papers. Cloth boards in dust-jacket which is faded at and by the spine. In this book the author interweaves the characters of the artists with the events of the time, achieving a composite tapestry of the dynamic 1850s, Australia's gold decade.
