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Heysen to Heysen: Selected Letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen

Author:   Speck Catherine
Publisher:   National Library of Australia
Edition:   1st Edition
ISBN:  

9780642277305


Pages:   624
Publication Date:   01 October 2011
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The prominent Australian artist Nora Heysen has been said to have worked in the shadow of her father Hans Heysen, one of Australia’s most recognised landscape painters. Letters between the two, however, reveal a different story.

In 1934, when Nora first travelled to London to study art, she experienced her first time away from home and the first of many, often exotic places from where she would write home to Hahndorf, South Australia. The correspondence between Nora and Hans continued until his death in 1968. Theirs was a close and affectionate relationship, in which father and daughter shared a lifetime of thoughts about art and life, and a mutual admiration and respect for each other’s work.

Heysen to Heysen is a showcase of letters between Nora and Hans Heysen from the collection of the National Library of Australia. Accompanied by carefully selected images and text by leading art historian Catherine Speck, the publication lifts the lid on a vista of Australian art.

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Author:   Speck Catherine
Publisher:   National Library of Australia
Edition:   1st Edition
ISBN:  

9780642277305


Pages:   624
Publication Date:   01 October 2011
Publisher's Status:   Not Specified
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Dianne Dempsey - The Saturday Age, 2011-12-08 11:54
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Speck's book, which includes striking prints of the Heysens' work, will go a long way towards enhancing Nora's reputation as one of our more important artists.

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Christopher Menz, 2011-12-08 11:40
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Catherine Speck offers just the right amount of background; she introduces each chapter and provides informative notes on the considerable cast mentioned in the correspondence. Those with an interest in the Heysens or in twentieth-century Australian art will find this a satisfying read.

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