John Brack
National Gallery of Victoria, $59.95 pb, 248 pp
Art
John Brack by Kirsty Grant et al.
by Chris Wallace-Crabbe •
John Brack (1920–99) is one of the most remarkable of Australian painters, and a salient figure in the generation that included Arthur Boyd, Fred Williams, John Perceval, Leonard French, and John Olsen, of whom only two survive. Many viewers would see him as the imagination that made our suburbs viable as art; others have been in two minds about his clarity and perfectionism. Hard edges can make for tough responses.
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