Judy Cassab : diaries

By:

Cassab, Judy, 1920-2015 [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New South Wales : Random House, 1996Description: 518 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraitsContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0091833884

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.994

Awards:

Nita B. Kibble Literary Award

Summary: Judy Cassab has always been shadowed by her past. Born in Vienna in 1920 to Hungarian Jewish parents, she lived through the horrors of the Second World War. Her husband taken to a labour camp and her family killed in Auschwitz, she managed to survive in hiding. Cassab migrated to Australia at a time when few women artists were given serious attention. Today, twice the winner of the Archibald Prize, Cassab is one of Australia's foremost painters.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Main Library Reference Section	Women’s Collection	WC 759.994 C343j 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	132361d

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Includes index.

Judy Cassab has always been shadowed by her past. Born in Vienna in 1920 to Hungarian Jewish parents, she lived through the horrors of the Second World War. Her husband taken to a labour camp and her family killed in Auschwitz, she managed to survive in hiding. Cassab migrated to Australia at a time when few women artists were given serious attention. Today, twice the winner of the Archibald Prize, Cassab is one of Australia's foremost painters.

Nita B. Kibble Literary Award

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