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Ranging across the diverse fields of graphic arts, choreography, architecture, furniture-making, textiles, sculpture, clothes design, photography and garden design, these essays evaluate the profound contribution of European immigrant artists to Australia's culture. Artists include German Jews anticipating Hitler's rise in the 1930s and (following the Second World War) artists from the Baltic states and Middle Europe. Contributors include Michelle Potter (on Edouard Borovansky), Tim Bonyhady (on Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis), John McPhee, Helen Ennis, Deborah Clark and Roger Leong.