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Article: Filth and pollution: Patricia Anderson enjoys an enthralling account of a spectacular exhibition of French and British 20th-century art that was received with horror by Australia in 1939.(Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art)(Book review)
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Degenerates and Perverts: the 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art
EILEEN CHANIN AND STEVEN MILLER WITH JUDITH PUGH
The Miegunyah Press, AUS$69.95
ISBN 0 522 85104 5
In the same year that Goring and Goebbels were arranging to burn some 4,829 works of 'degenerate--that is to say modernist--art, an Australian art critic, at the express wishes of Sir Leith Murdoch, proprietor of Melbourne's Herald, was assembling a collection of French and British art to come to Australia. Basil Burdett's excellent eye and astonishing range of European and British contacts ensured works of the highest calibre--217 in all. ...