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The Home Front

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posted on 2023-05-24, 05:11 authored by Katherine Darian-SmithKatherine Darian-Smith
When Great Britain marched into the First World War in August 1914, Australians responded with wild enthusiasm and waved the flags of Empire. While the war was fought far away, the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, the long misery of the Western Front and the bitter debate about conscription reverberated throughout Australian society for decades. On the home front, artist Grace Cossington Smith, ensconced with her family in the northern Sydney suburb of Turramurra, captured a moment of quiet domesticity amid the wartime turmoil with The sock knitter, 1915 (p. 11), a Post-impressionist portrait of her sister, Madge. Another work, the jaunty Reinforcements: troops 111archin9, c.1917 (p. 4), depicts the send-off to volunteers in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), although a crying child in the foreground unsettles the celebratory mood.

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Publication title

Follow the Flag: Australian Artists at War 1914-45

Editors

K Grant and S Van Wyk

Pagination

102-105

ISBN

9780724104055

Department/School

College Office - College of Arts, Law and Education

Publisher

National Gallery of Victoria

Place of publication

Melbourne, Australia

Extent

10

Rights statement

Copyright 2015 National Gallery of Victoria

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Understanding Australia’s past

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