| Main Title: |
S.T. Gill & his audiences / Sasha Grishin. |
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| Author: |
Grishin, Sasha
State Library of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.)
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| Publisher: |
Melbourne, Victoria : National Library of Australia Publishing ; |
| Collation: |
27 cm. 255 pages : colour illustrations, portrait, notes, bibliography, index, hbk ; |
| Summary: |
Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia's most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised 'Marvellous Melbourne' basking in the glow of the gold rushes. He worked in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales and left some of the most memorable images of urban and rural life in colonial Australia. A passionate defender of Indigenous Australians and of the environment, Gill in his art celebrated the emerging quintessential Australian character. This is the first major comprehensive book to be devoted to Gill and presents a radical reassessment of one of the most important figures in Australian colonial art and reproduces, in some instances for the first time, some of the most startling images from nineteenth-century Australian art. |
| Subject: |
Gill, S. T. (Samuel Thomas), 1818-1880
Biography
Art and artists
Painters and painting
Lithography and lithographs
Landscape drawing and painting
Gold mines and mining
Colonial times
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| ISBN: |
9780642278739 |
| Notes: |
This book has been produced for the exhibition 'Australian Sketchbook: Colonial life and the art of S.T. Gill held at the State Library Victoria and the National Library of Australia.
Includes bibliographical references.
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| Added Title: |
S.T. Gill and his audiences
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