1st Edition
British Art for Australia, 1860-1953 The Acquisition of Artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian National Galleries
Chapter One: British Art for Australia, 1860-1953: An Introduction
Chapter Two: ‘Work that would meet the taste of the Colonists’: British art for Antipodean Britons
Chapter Three: ‘The civilization of the people’: Australian national galleries and civic humanism
Chapter Four: ‘A more extended area for English art’: The British world and the imperial art market
Chapter Five: ‘The best equipped agent, with as free a hand’: advisors and selectors of British art for Australia
Chapter Six: ‘A Sop to Cerberus’: Collecting the British Old Masters in Australia
Chapter Seven: ‘One of the many Colonial Delusions’: Australian national galleries and British Landscape Painting
Chapter Eight: ‘No highly desirable Pre-Raphaelite picture should be spared from home’: the antipodean pursuit of a British acme
Chapter Nine: ‘The gap that is steadily widening’: the acquisition of ‘insular’ British Modernism by Australian national galleries, 1900-1953
Chapter Ten: Conclusions
Biography
Matthew C. Potter is an associate professor and reader in art and design history at Northumbria University, UK
