Art Was Their Weapon: The History of the Perth Workers' Art Guild

Dylan Hyde

окт 2019. · Fremantle Press

O ovoj e-knjizi

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.

O autoru

Dylan Hyde was born in the United States and raisedin Perth before emigrating to Melbourne in his lateteenage years where he currently lives with his wifeand two children. He has an ongoing interest inhistorical research and writing, specifically in theareas of art and political history. His published worksto date have been an article on the Workers’ Art Guild in Papers inLabour History (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History,No 18, March 1997) and a short piece in The Historical Encyclopediaof Western Australia (UWA Press, 2009). Dylan previously worked infilm and television production.