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Alison Carroll

Letters to the Editor - July-August 2011

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July–August 2011, no. 333

 

Paradoxical neglect

Dear Editor,

Patrick McCaughey’s article ‘NativeGrounds and Foreign Fields: The Paradoxical Neglect of Australian Art Abroad’ (June 2011) caught my attention because of its title, then its content. The ...

The Revolutionary Century by Alison Carroll & Every 23 Days by Sarah Bond, Alison Carroll and Claire Watson

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November 2010, no. 326
Peter Hill reviews 'The Revolutionary Century: Art in Asia 1900–2000' by Alison Carroll and 'Every 23 Days: 20 Years Touring Asia' edited by Sarah Bond, Alison Carroll and Claire Watson

If you were to tell me that a book had been written that covered a century of art in Asia, from 1900 to 2000, and that its geographic range moved from Japan to Pakistan and Indonesia, to Nepal, the Australian outback, and Cambodia, I would initially ask how many volumes it contained. That such a book exists, in a fairly slim volume, is tribute to the skills of its author, Alison Carroll. How has she done it?

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