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Anne Dangar
\nedited by Rebecca Edwards with
\nPeter Brooke (Contributor), A. D. S. Donaldson (Contributor),
\nPublished by The National Gallery of Australia, Dec 2024.
\nHardcover: 264 pages
\nISBN-10: 0642335095
\nISBN-13: 978-0642335098<\/p>\n
The Australian cubist and potter Anne Dangar<\/a> (1885\u20131951) has occupied a unique position in art history as one of the country’s most important yet underacknowledged modern artists. This publication accompanies a major retrospective exhibition celebrating Dangar’s life and art<\/a> through previously unknown works, new scholarship, and perspectives on her practice.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a beautiful publication which includes many valuable essays about Anne Dangar, including one by Anne O\u2019Hehir which \u201cbrings a queer perspective to networks of Australian modernism in the twentieth century, contextualising and exploring the lesbian relationship between Dangar and Australian artist Grace Crowley<\/a> (1890-1979) prior to 1930, and its influence on Australian art\u201d.<\/p>\n Anne Dangar (1885\u20131951) was an Australian-born artist who was renowned for her innovative pottery designs which fused traditional techniques with modernist motifs. Dangar was trained in Sydney as a painter under Horace Moore-Jones and later at Julian Ashton\u2019s School of Art, where she taught from 1920 with fellow artist and rumoured lover Grace Crowley. Dangar travelled to Paris, France with Crowley, studying at the Paris academy of French Cubist Andr\u00e9 Lh\u00f4te. Dangar briefly returned to Sydney, attempting to introduce the modernist ideas she had learnt in France but was met with resistance amongst her conservative colleagues. In 1930 Dangar returned to France where she would remain until she died in 1951. Upon her return to France, she joined the Moly-Sabata artists\u2019 commune where she learnt the traditional skills of local village pottery. firstly at the Poterie Clovis Nicolas, in St D\u00e9sirat, Ard\u00e8che, in 1930-31, and from 1932 under Jean-Marie Paquaud at the Poterie Bert, Roussillon, Is\u00e8re. She also became an active art and craft teacher to the local village children. Despite her physical distance, Dangar played a pivotal role in the development of Sydney\u2019s cultural and artistic landscape through her letters to Crowley. Dangar\u2019s work is found in several collections in Australia and France including the Mus\u00e9e National d\u2019Art Moderne, Paris. – queeraustralianart.com<\/p>\nAnne Dangar’s biography at Queer Australian Art<\/h2>\n
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