| Main Title: |
Painting ghosts : Australian women artists in wartime / Catherine Speck. |
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| Author: |
Speck, Catherine.
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| Imprint: |
Craftsman House, c2004. |
| Collation: |
239 p. : col. ill., portraits, notes, bib., index, hbk ; 27 cm. |
| Summary: |
Examines the art and life stories of numerous women in the Second World War including Grace Cossington Smith, Dora Meeson, Margaret Preston, Jacqui Hicks, Dorrit Black and Amie Kingston. Some women became official war artists producing an alternative set of national images every bit as compelling as those of their male counterparts. |
| Subject: |
Women
Art and artists
World War, 1939-1945
Military history
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| ISBN: |
1877004227 |
| Notes: |
Includes index.
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