Art Was Their Weapon The History of the Perth Workers’ Art Guild
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Art Was Their Weapon The History of the Perth Workers’ Art Guild

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Full Title

Art Was Their Weapon The History of the Perth Workers\' Art Guild
Author(s)

Dylan Hyde
Edition
ISBN

9781925815917, 9781925815740
Publisher

Fremantle Press
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The politics, art and culture of Perth’s Workers Art Guildare detailed in this comprehensive history, as well as the personal andprofessional lives of some of the movement’s key figures.The Workers’ Art Guild was a left-leaning political force andinfluential cultural movement of the 1930s and 1940s in Perth. Policeand intelligence arms kept close tabs on the Guild and its members,jailing some and intimidating many others prior to and during theperiod of the banning of the Communist Party in Australia.The book covers the personal and professional lives of key figuressuch as writer Katharine Susannah Prichard and theatre maverickKeith George, while charting the influence of the Communist Party onWestern Australian artists.

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