Title

Refreshing!: art off the pub wall

Author

Pickett, Charles

Source

[Not applicable]

Details

Sydney: Powerhouse Publishing with Allen & Unwin

Publication date

1990

Physical description

paperback, 64 pages, 297 x 210 mm Illustrated in full colour

ISBN

978 186317 013 0 (186317 013 8)

Type

Book

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Pub paintings are among the most enduring celebratory images of Australian life. Although they now inspire nostalgia, they were originally intended to give hotels a modern image. This lavishly illustrated book traces their origins early this century to their heyday in the 1930s and ’40s. [publishers blurb]