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ￂﾠUplifting the Colonial Philistine: Florence Philips and the Making of the Johannesburg Art Gallery Carmen Jillian

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Uplifting the Colonial Philistine is a thoroughly researched, fascinating account of the unusual circumstances in which early Johannesburg, then a budding mining town, came to have an art gallery with one of the most avant-garde collections in the world. It describes the larger-than-life characters who brought the Johannesburg Art Gallery to its grand launch in November 1910: Florence Phillips, wife of one of the Rand

lord patrons, and Hugh Lane, curator. Containing 100 reproductions from the original catalogue, this book unravels the complex intertwining of personal and sociopolitical agendas that made up the fabric of the founding.