Painting ghosts
Subtitle: Australian women artists in wartime
By: Catherine Speck.
Publisher: Craftsman House
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Art, Australian -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.; Women artists -- Australia.; War artists -- Australia.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 205-227.
Includes index.