Roger Butler
PRINTED IMAGES BY AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS 1885-1955
Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2007

328 pages, 439 colour illustrations, 30 x 25 cm., Bibliography, Index.
ISBN 978-0-642-54204-5

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The painter–printmaking movement          
    Early painter–etchers in Australia
    Working overseas: Etching, lithography and monotypes in London and Paris
    The artistic lithograph in Australia 
    Prints and photographs: Shared concerns
    The Australian Painter–Etchers Society
The importance of design
    Early posters and lithography
    The poster style
    Blamire Young and the artistic poster in Melbourne
    An Australian style
    Artists' woodblock prints
    Australia and Japan: Links in print
    Australian artists in Japan
    Woodblocks: Printed in the Japanese manner
    Travel posters
    Wood-engraving and the art of the fine book
    Exemplars: Margaret Preston and Thea Proctor
    The linocut and Sydney women artists
    Melbourne manner
    Printed in magazines
    The Grosvenor School and colour linocuts
War, Depression, Anxiety
    World War I
      Posters
      Responses to the war
    World War II
      Posters
      Enemy aliens
      Army life
      At home with war
    Printmakers and politics
      The Great Depression 
      The linocut
      Activists
      The New Theatre
       These are my people
    Anxiety in war and its aftermath
        Lithography, a democratic art form
        Freedom of expression
        Cold War anxiety and the search for meaning

Bibliography
Index