Arts
Carmel Oakley reviews 'Arthur Streeton: The art without the man' by Arline Usden
Carmel Oakley
Saturday, 01 May 1982
The best things about this book are the paintings, the photographs, and the paper. The worst thing is the prose. But does this matter, you may well ask, in a book obviously designed to travel rapidly from the coffee table to the wall – with its large size format and convenient disintegration at first read? It’s the pictures we want, not the prose.
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Published in
May 1982, no. 40
T. Counihan reviews 'The Black Swan of Trespass' by Humphrey McQueen
T. Counihan
Tuesday, 01 April 1980
Humphrey McQueen’s new book claims to give an adequate account of the emergence if not the development of modernist paining in Australia up to 1944. In particular he claims to do two things the previous writers in this area have not done or have done inadequately.
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Published in
April 1980, no. 19