Brave New World: Australia 1930s
Edited by Paige Amor
National Gallery of Victoria
Published for the exhibition ‘Brave New World: Australia 1930s’ recently on show at the National Gallery of Victoria, this book presents a timeline of the era. Across a thematic layout of more than 200 pages, essays, colour reproductions and photographs depict artist impressions of growing cities, pastoral landscapes, modern interiors; sculpture and furniture, the female form, beach culture and Aboriginal art. From the Great Depression to the Second World War and paralleled by the emergence of Abstract, Surrealist and Expressionist art movements this hardcover publication is a journey through turbulent and defining moments in Australia’s history.
