Episode of Series “Australian Art”.
The Australian artist has no greater challenge than his own landscape, but few have been completely successful in depicting it. Using both the artists’ words and their work, this film studies such men as Russell Drysdale, Tom Roberts and Sir Heysen, and shows why and how they have transmuted landscape into art
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
000896
Language
English
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Italians - Australia
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Australia
Crafts & Visual Arts → Landscape painting
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting, Australian
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Italians - Australia
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)