Arts
Through Artists’ Eyes: Australian Suburbs and their Cities, 1919-1945 by John Slater
We’ve been hectored by Miss Greer and savaged by Mr Hughes, but, like Goldilocks with the three bears’ bowls of porridge, Mr Conrad loves us just right. His book At Home in Australia is a collaboration between the National Gallery of Australia and Thames & Hudson, and more particularly between himself and Gael Newton, the gallery’s Senior Curator of Photography, who rang him in London with an invitation to write a book about the gallery’s photography collection.
... (read more)Australian Painting 1788–2000 by Bernard Smith, with Terry Smith and Christopher Heathcote
Feather and Brush: Three centuries of Australian bird art by Penny Olsen
We should no longer marvel at the way art historians are forever finding yet another woman artist to rescue from undeserved obscurity. With Patricia R. McDonald’s tribute to Barbara Tribe we have the work of this eclectic Australian sculptor finally validated in a handsomely produced monograph.
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