Bertram Mackennal: The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project
AGNSW, $80 hb, 216 pp, 9781741740110
Bertram Mackennal: The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project by Deborah Edwards
If Australian art has sometimes been perceived as wanting in style and opulence, recent art museum exhibitions and monographs examining the art and artists of the Edwardian era tell another story and reveal that there is abundant glamour in Australian art. The Edwardians (2004) and George W. Lambert Retrospective (2007) – both from the National Gallery of Australia – and Bertram Mackennal (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007) have succeeded in presenting Australian art in the grand manner from this most extravagant period.
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