Plein Airs and Graces
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| Title: | Plein Airs and Graces |
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| Description: | This book examines the extraordinary life of George Collingridge de Tourcey, a landscape painter of the late nineteenth century, just ahead of the Australian impressionists. When he emigrated from France to Australia he grew passionate about the possibilities of his new country, and worked tirelessly to contribute to it - not least for his'Discovery of Australia'(1895), in which on the evidence of ancient maps he argued controversially for Portuguese and Hispanic pre-discovery of Australia. |
| Authors: | Mitchell, Adrian |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Landscape painters--Australia--Biography |
| Categories: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers, ART / History / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This book examines the extraordinary life of George Collingridge de Tourcey, a landscape painter of the late nineteenth century, just ahead of the Australian impressionists. When he emigrated from France to Australia he grew passionate about the possibilities of his new country, and worked tirelessly to contribute to it - not least for his'Discovery of Australia'(1895), in which on the evidence of ancient maps he argued controversially for Portuguese and Hispanic pre-discovery of Australia. |
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| ISBN: | 9781743050958 9781743052136 9781743052143 |
