Bryan Robertson 'Recent Australian Painting' Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1961
Recent Australian Painting. Important catalogue of a major group exhibition curated by Bryan Robertson at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in 1961. A Very Good copy of this important publication. Foreword by Kenneth Clark, preface by Bryan Robertson, introduction by Robert Hughes. An important catalogue of an exhibition which was the first major show of Post-War Australian painting in Britain. 23 black and white plates plus numerous portrait photographs.
As Simon Pierse has written “When a major exhibition of Australian painting organized by the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board and scheduled for the Tate Gallery was delayed, Bryan Robertson seized the opportunity to curate a groundbreaking exhibition of recent Australian painting at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. Robertson’s curatorial instinct was for colour and exuberance and he saw Australian art as an exotic product of the remote. Documents preserved in the Whitechapel archive show how the exhibition evolved and how artists reacted to their inclusion. Robertson filled the Whitechapel Gallery with enormous tropical plants and described the event as a great spectacle, whilst Robert Hughes, in his catalogue introduction to the exhibition wrote that to think of Australia as a jardin exotique is a fashionable way of missing the point..”
Title: Recent Australian Painting
Authors: Foreword by Kenneth Clark, preface by Bryan Robertson, introduction by Robert Hughes
Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery, London
Publication date: 1961
Binding: Softcover, laminated illustrated wraps
Size: Quarto
Pages: 60pp.
Condition: Very Good
Provenance: From the library of Dr Simon Pierse
Recent Australian Painting. Important catalogue of a major group exhibition curated by Bryan Robertson at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in 1961. A Very Good copy of this important publication. Foreword by Kenneth Clark, preface by Bryan Robertson, introduction by Robert Hughes. An important catalogue of an exhibition which was the first major show of Post-War Australian painting in Britain. 23 black and white plates plus numerous portrait photographs.
As Simon Pierse has written “When a major exhibition of Australian painting organized by the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board and scheduled for the Tate Gallery was delayed, Bryan Robertson seized the opportunity to curate a groundbreaking exhibition of recent Australian painting at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. Robertson’s curatorial instinct was for colour and exuberance and he saw Australian art as an exotic product of the remote. Documents preserved in the Whitechapel archive show how the exhibition evolved and how artists reacted to their inclusion. Robertson filled the Whitechapel Gallery with enormous tropical plants and described the event as a great spectacle, whilst Robert Hughes, in his catalogue introduction to the exhibition wrote that to think of Australia as a jardin exotique is a fashionable way of missing the point..”
Title: Recent Australian Painting
Authors: Foreword by Kenneth Clark, preface by Bryan Robertson, introduction by Robert Hughes
Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery, London
Publication date: 1961
Binding: Softcover, laminated illustrated wraps
Size: Quarto
Pages: 60pp.
Condition: Very Good
Provenance: From the library of Dr Simon Pierse
Recent Australian Painting. Important catalogue of a major group exhibition curated by Bryan Robertson at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in 1961. A Very Good copy of this important publication. Foreword by Kenneth Clark, preface by Bryan Robertson, introduction by Robert Hughes. An important catalogue of an exhibition which was the first major show of Post-War Australian painting in Britain. 23 black and white plates plus numerous portrait photographs.
As Simon Pierse has written “When a major exhibition of Australian painting organized by the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board and scheduled for the Tate Gallery was delayed, Bryan Robertson seized the opportunity to curate a groundbreaking exhibition of recent Australian painting at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. Robertson’s curatorial instinct was for colour and exuberance and he saw Australian art as an exotic product of the remote. Documents preserved in the Whitechapel archive show how the exhibition evolved and how artists reacted to their inclusion. Robertson filled the Whitechapel Gallery with enormous tropical plants and described the event as a great spectacle, whilst Robert Hughes, in his catalogue introduction to the exhibition wrote that to think of Australia as a jardin exotique is a fashionable way of missing the point..”
Title: Recent Australian Painting
Authors: Foreword by Kenneth Clark, preface by Bryan Robertson, introduction by Robert Hughes
Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery, London
Publication date: 1961
Binding: Softcover, laminated illustrated wraps
Size: Quarto
Pages: 60pp.
Condition: Very Good
Provenance: From the library of Dr Simon Pierse
