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J.W. Power

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J. W. Power was Australia's most accomplished interwar avant-garde artist. This first monograph of Power's remarkable nomadic career follows a journey from Australia to Britain, and then around the world. Having initially studied medicine in Sydney followed by service as a surgeon during WW1, Power gave up a medical career to study art in Paris in the early 1920s, first with the Brazilian Pedro Araujo and then with Fernand Leger. It was in London, however, that he first establishing his reputation as a modernist, exhibiting with the London Group and the 7 & 5 Society.

In the late 1920s working as a cubist, incorporating elements of the surreal and abstraction, he reorientated his career to Paris, where he showed with the famed galleries run by Leonce Rosenberg and Jeanne Bucher. In 1931 he was central to the formation of the international artists group Abstraction-Creation whose members included Mondrian, Kandinsky and his friend Otto Freundlich.

It is his life as an artist in the midst of the interwar European avant-garde that this book recognises and celebrates.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
National Library of Australia
Country
Australia
Date
1 November 2025
Pages
240
ISBN
9781922507938

J. W. Power was Australia's most accomplished interwar avant-garde artist. This first monograph of Power's remarkable nomadic career follows a journey from Australia to Britain, and then around the world. Having initially studied medicine in Sydney followed by service as a surgeon during WW1, Power gave up a medical career to study art in Paris in the early 1920s, first with the Brazilian Pedro Araujo and then with Fernand Leger. It was in London, however, that he first establishing his reputation as a modernist, exhibiting with the London Group and the 7 & 5 Society.

In the late 1920s working as a cubist, incorporating elements of the surreal and abstraction, he reorientated his career to Paris, where he showed with the famed galleries run by Leonce Rosenberg and Jeanne Bucher. In 1931 he was central to the formation of the international artists group Abstraction-Creation whose members included Mondrian, Kandinsky and his friend Otto Freundlich.

It is his life as an artist in the midst of the interwar European avant-garde that this book recognises and celebrates.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
National Library of Australia
Country
Australia
Date
1 November 2025
Pages
240
ISBN
9781922507938