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British Modernism from an Australian Point of View: Clarice Zander's 1933 Exhibition of British Contemporary Art

British Modernism from an Australian Point of View: Clarice Zander's 1933 Exhibition of... Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2017, vol. 17, no. 1, 84–96 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2017.1336190 British Modernism from an Australian Point of View: Clarice Zander’s 1933 Exhibition of British Contemporary Art Victoria Souliman* The experience of Australian expatriates in Britain and the role they subsequently played in the development of the creative and performing arts in Australia has long been acknowledged. Stephen Alomes’s When London Calls: The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain (1999) is one recent example of such research into the importance of expatriatism to Australian cultural history. However, theroleplayedby these expatriates in British art historiography remains overlooked and deserves further investigation. When considering the development of modernism in Australia, as Terry Smith explains, we must acknowledge that 1920s London was the primary point of reference for Australian artists and that English and Scottish tastes, styles, techniques, aesthetic ideologies and institutional forms dominated Australian artistic life. Indeed, the mobility of Australian artists between centres of art in Australia and abroad contributed to the ‘arrival’ of modernism in Australia; it can also be argued, however, that the same mobility played a part in the development of modernism in Europe, and more particularly England. Art historian John Richardson, for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art Taylor & Francis

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2017, vol. 17, no. 1, 84–96 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2017.1336190 British Modernism from an Australian Point of View: Clarice Zander’s 1933 Exhibition of British Contemporary Art Victoria Souliman* The experience of Australian expatriates in Britain and the role they subsequently played in the development of the creative and performing arts in Australia has long been acknowledged. Stephen Alomes’s When London Calls: The...
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2017, vol. 17, no. 1, 84–96 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2017.1336190 British Modernism from an Australian Point of View: Clarice Zander’s 1933 Exhibition of British Contemporary Art Victoria Souliman* The experience of Australian expatriates in Britain and the role they subsequently played in the development of the creative and performing arts in Australia has long been acknowledged. Stephen Alomes’s When London Calls: The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain (1999) is one recent example of such research into the importance of expatriatism to Australian cultural history. However, theroleplayedby these expatriates in British art historiography remains overlooked and deserves further investigation. When considering the development of modernism in Australia, as Terry Smith explains, we must acknowledge that 1920s London was the primary point of reference for Australian artists and that English and Scottish tastes, styles, techniques, aesthetic ideologies and institutional forms dominated Australian artistic life. Indeed, the mobility of Australian artists between centres of art in Australia and abroad contributed to the ‘arrival’ of modernism in Australia; it can also be argued, however, that the same mobility played a part in the development of modernism in Europe, and more particularly England. Art historian John Richardson, for

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