Refugees and émigrés to Australia, 1930-1950: Three cases of light, colour and material studies in the Antipodes under the shadow of fascism and war (original) (raw)

Migration Processes and Artistic Practices in Wartime, 2018

Abstract

A signicant number of central European and German refugees and emigres sought refuge from war and fascism in Australia during the inter-war and post-World War Two years. While many historical accounts of Antipodean modernism stress its distance from French avant-garde sources, this generation of refugees and emigres brought local practitioners into direct contact with aspects of the modernist endeavour. In particular, these refugees and emigres introduced an approach to modernism that was cross- disciplinary and derived its inspiration from a systematic approach to arts education. This conception tended to highlight the common elements between art, design and architecture.While there have been numerous, individual studies of this generation, this paper foreshadows a much larger research project that aims to link these individual histories into one coherent study. In this paper we offer an indicative sample of a select number of case studies in order to highlight some of these common...

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