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TOPLISS, HELEN. - The Artists' Camps. 'Plein Air' Painting In Australia. Editor Frank McDonald.

Title: The Artists' Camps. 'Plein Air' Painting In Australia. Editor Frank McDonald.
Description: First Edition; Med. 4to; pp. x, 214; illustrated frontispiece, 221 illustrated plates mostly in colour, list of plates, bibliography, index, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and upper board, embossed design to upper board, matching cloth slipcase with inset colour illustration, fine copy. Alphington, Vic.; Headley Australia Publications; 1992. Plein Air Painting was previously known as the Heidelberg School (deriving its name from the suburb in Melbourne, Heidelberg, where it was thought to have been initiated as a movement by Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin in 1885). In fact Plein Air painting took place in all the major cities in Australia from the 1890's onwards until and after Federation in 1901.

Keywords: Australian art melbourne history Plein Air Painting

Price: AUD 75.00 = appr. US$ 51.89 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 120233