Heysen To Heysen. Selected Letters Of Hans Heysen And Nora Heysen

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: National Library Of Australia
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 351 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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. 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. This is the first time their letters have been published to this extent.

ISBN: 9780642277305