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J.W. Power: An Australian Avant-gardist: A Book Launch

Where
Chau Chak Wing Museum
Chau Chak Wing Museum
University Place, University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW 2006
When

Thursday 30 October from 6pm to 7:30pm

Sydney-born painter John Joseph Wardell Power, better known as J.W. Power, was Australia’s most accomplished artist of the interwar years. In London and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, Power’s unique blend of cubism, surrealism and abstraction found an audience in the heart of the avant-garde.

Today, he is chiefly remembered as a benefactor whose extraordinary gifts led to the founding of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney in 1968 and the establishment of the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1991.

Join us to celebrate the launch of the monograph, J.W. Power: An Australian Avant-gardist.

 The book, published with NLA Publishing, accompanies the J.W. Power: Art, War and the Avant-garde exhibition at the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum, reveals his singular role in Australian art in the 20th century.

The book is co-authored by Dr Ann Stephen, FAHA (Senior Curator, Art, Chau Chak Wing Museum) and ADS Donaldson (artist, art historian and curator).

The evening features presentations by Mark Ledbury (Power Institute, The University of Sydney) and TBC (National Library of Australia).

Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the evening.

For more details on the publication, visit the National Library of Australia website.

Part of the University of Sydney’s 175th anniversary Community Festival.

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