Contesting modernism: flowers, portraits, gum trees: my father and me [Nora and Hans Heysen.]

[...] she was never secure about her position in the Australian art world, and felt overshadowed by her father Hans Heysen (1877-1968). [...] her total immersion in a cosmopolitan city and its art scene transformed her work.* She communicated that change in her regular letters home to her parents (b...

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Published in:Hecate 2009-05, Vol.35 (1/2), p.108-123
Main Author: Speck, Catherine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Art and life
Art criticism
Artists
Australian painting
Biography
Criticism and interpretation
Heysen, Hans, Sir
Heysen, Nora
Modernism
Speeches, lectures and essays
Teachers
Women artists
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Summary:[...] she was never secure about her position in the Australian art world, and felt overshadowed by her father Hans Heysen (1877-1968). [...] her total immersion in a cosmopolitan city and its art scene transformed her work.* She communicated that change in her regular letters home to her parents (but, really, her father) and he as her first teacher advised her throughout.
ISSN:0311-4198
1839-4213