Australian Art
Permanent Revolution: Mike Brown and the Australian avant-garde1953–97 by Richard Haese
by Peter Hill •
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art edited by Jaynie Anderson
by Andrew Sayers •
Twenty years ago, when I was at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, I heard of an Arthur Boyd exhibition in SoHo. Recklessly, without seeing the show, I urged my American friends to see one of Australia’s foremost contemporary painters. The gallery, unknown to me, turned out to be small and unimpressive. There were five or six late paintings, including one of those large, multi-figured bathers, with that disconcerting quality of Boyd at the end of his career, both slapdash and commercial at the same moment. ‘So this is what contemporary Australian painting looks like?’ my companion asked ironically, just within the bounds of good manners.
... (read more)Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings by Barry Hill and John Wolseley
by Chris Wallace-Crabbe •
A Singular Voice: Essays on Australian art and architecture by Joan Kerr edited by Candice Bruce, Dinah Dysart, Jo Holder
by Susan Steggall •
Bill Henson: Photographs by Bill Henson, introduction by David Malouf
by Helen Grace •
Misty Moderns: Australian Tonalists 1915–1950 by Tracey Lock-Weir
by Wendy Walker •
Unstill Life by Judith Pugh & Self-Portrait of the Artist’s Wife by Irena Sibley
by Vivien Gaston •