Judy Cassab: A Portrait (SIGNED)
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
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Book: Excellent
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: signed by all.
This richly researched biography chronicles the remarkable life of Judy Cassab, one of Australia's most celebrated portrait painters, tracing her journey from a Jewish childhood in Hungary through the horrors of the Holocaust and her eventual emigration to Australia, where she rose to extraordinary artistic prominence. Brenda Niall draws on Cassab's own diaries — among the most candid and revealing ever kept by an Australian artist — to present an intimate portrait of a woman navigating displacement, grief, and reinvention with fierce determination. The narrative illuminates not only Cassab's technical mastery and her two Archibald Prize victories, but also the emotional and cultural tensions of building a new identity in a foreign land without surrendering the one left behind. Written with warmth and scholarly precision, Judy Cassab: A Portrait stands as both a compelling human story and an essential document of twentieth-century Australian art history.
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Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Excellent
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: signed by all.
This richly researched biography chronicles the remarkable life of Judy Cassab, one of Australia's most celebrated portrait painters, tracing her journey from a Jewish childhood in Hungary through the horrors of the Holocaust and her eventual emigration to Australia, where she rose to extraordinary artistic prominence. Brenda Niall draws on Cassab's own diaries — among the most candid and revealing ever kept by an Australian artist — to present an intimate portrait of a woman navigating displacement, grief, and reinvention with fierce determination. The narrative illuminates not only Cassab's technical mastery and her two Archibald Prize victories, but also the emotional and cultural tensions of building a new identity in a foreign land without surrendering the one left behind. Written with warmth and scholarly precision, Judy Cassab: A Portrait stands as both a compelling human story and an essential document of twentieth-century Australian art history.
