Featuring paintings, sculpture, photographs, and decorative arts,
Australian Symbolism: The Art of Dreams is the only book on this
subject and provides a fresh context for the work of some of the most
well‐known Australian artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
It investigates two main streams of Symbolist art: those artists - such
as Rupert Bunny, Bernard Hall, George Lambert, Arthur Loureiro, and
Bertram Mackennal - who trained or worked overseas and drew directly
from European Symbolist genres; and those working here - such as Charles
Conder, Sydney Long, Arthur Streeton, and Tom Roberts and - who defined
a local experience.