Centre of the periphery
Subtitle: three European art historians in Melbourne
By: Sheridan Palmer.
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781740971652
Subjects: Hoff, Ursula, -- 1909-2005; Philipp, Franz A; Burke, Joseph -- Sir, -- 1913-1992; Art historians -- Victoria -- Melbourne; Art -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- 20th century; Art and society -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- 20th century; Art -- Australia -- 20th century
Description: "This book throws new light on a recent period of cultural transformation when Europe's 'outsiders' became 'insiders' of post-war Australian society and rapidly facilitated progress in the arts and academia." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The European crisis. Ursula Hoff and the Hamburger School; Franz Philipp and the Vienna School; Exile and the rescue of German scholarship; title: 2. Transitions: London 1933-1945. The 'dismissed savants' and art history's transformation in England; Ursula Hoff in England; Exodus; Joseph Burke: a minimus incipe; title: 3. Relocation to the antipodes. The 'Cinderella' of the Dominions'; Making connections; The Dunera Scholars and Melbourne's Europeanisation; title: 4. The remaking of the National Gallery of Victoria. Daryl Lindsay and the genesis of a gallery; Ursula Hoff: museology and masterpieces; title: 5. Art history scholarship in the antipodes. Joseph Burke's Arcadia; Franz Philipp and the ideals of scholarship; title: 6. The centre of the periphery: Melbourne in the 1950s. Art in Melbourne: influences and responses; Cultural courtships and educational partnerships; A subterranean influence; title: 7. New blood and old. Bernard Smith: culture and capitalism; Eric Westbrook and the spectacle of culture; Into the 1960s: tradition and modernity.