The White Chrysanthemum by Nancy Keesing

The White Chrysanthemum

Changing Images of Australian Motherhood

by Nancy Keesing

Angus & Robertson, 1977, [First Edition], ISBN 0207135177, colour photographic plates, black and white photographs throughout, photographic endpapers, hardcover, dustjacket  

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and bumping (see photographs)

“Through these pages we are shown how the Australian mother has been portrayed in writing and art from our colonial beginnings to the present day.  We see her as her children see her, how outsiders see her, how she sees herself.
There are revealing extracts from the Sydney Gazette; early chronicles on Aboriginal motherhood, passages by the pioneers themselves; right through to our modern novelists, poets, artists and historians.
Full colour paintings depicting Australian motherhood include works by Fred McCubbin, Sir John Longstaff, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, Joshua Smith and Robert Dickerson, and drawings and cartoons represent artists of such diverse talent as Norman Lindsay, Judy Cassab, C. H. Percival and Emile Mercier.”