J. W. Power: Abstraction-creation: Paris 1934

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A long forgotten 1934 exhibition by the Australian expatriate J.W. Power at the Abstraction-Creation gallery in Paris provides the key to understanding this most elusive artist. Stephen and Donaldson argue that Power is Australia's most important avant-gardist of the early 20th century. J.W. Power Abstraction-Creation reveals how Power's work illuminates the relationships between Sydney and Paris, and between France and Australia, an exchange that goes to the heart of Australia's modernism.

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A. D. S. Donaldson is an artist, curator, and art historian. He lectures in the Painting Department at the National Art School, Sydney. Ann Stephen is an art historian and senior curator of the University Art Gallery at the University of Sydney.