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Australian Books

Australian art in the Roaring Twenties

3 July 2021

9:00 AM

3 July 2021

9:00 AM

For the Fallen: The 1921-1922 Melbourne Public Library Mural Competition within the setting of Decorative Painting in Australian Art Dr Paul Paffen

Australian Scholarly Publishing/National Gallery of Australia, pp.452, $150.00

The only criticism that can be levelled at For the Fallen by Paul Paffen is that it lacks the hard cover it deserves. Beautifully illustrated, clearly written, meticulously researched and, although focussed upon a Mural Competition in Melbourne in 1921-1922, this book is a history of Australian art in the first quarter century of the new nation.

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Ian Callinan is the author of two novels set in the art world, The Missing Masterpiece and The Russian Master.

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