Modernism and Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917-1967 edited by Ann Stephen, Andrew McNamara and Philip Goad

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Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Plastic contact covering. Stamps on inside pages. Partial date due slip on inside page now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker.

An anthology of art-historical documents reveals that Australia was not in a 'time-lag' but had a contemporary engagement with international trends and developments in modernism.

In more than 200 documents - talks, letters, debates, public manifestos and private diaries - the main players of the period convey in their own words the tensions, aspirations and paradoxes behind the reception of modernism.