Donna Leslie, a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne, sets out to demonstrate how Aboriginal art has questioned the 'assimilationist' policies which prevailed in Australia from the 1930s to the 1970s.

This is an overview of the important developments of Australian artists in all media. It traces the history of Australian art from the beginning, portraying the objective conditions of a society transplanted to a remote and s

Scottish-born artist Ian Fairweather (1891-1974) is a giant amongst Australian painters. He is revered by fellow artists. Shaped by European modernism - post-impressionism and cubism - Fairweather was a recluse drawn

The art of Jon Cattapan--from his student days of Dadaist grotesquerie and surrealist erotica to more modern explorations of global information flows and urbanism--is vividly presented in this monograph. Containing e

Harper's subject matter is restricted to a simple vocabulary of pure abstract shapes and colours. her paintings are a celebration of colour, forming a visual kaleidoscope painted in a systematic way and usually in groups and

Robert Juniper, along with his contemporaries Fred Williams and John Olsen, belongs to a generation of artists who created a new and contemporary vision of Australia in the second half of the twentieth century. Duri

The third in our "Bay Art Revival" series, this edition of Russell Drysdale has been fully revised to integrate the paintings into the body of the text and includes a new introduction by author Lou Klepac, written to

What do the artistic works of acclaimed author Tim Winton and eminent Ngarinyin lawman Bungal (David ) Mowaljarlai have in common? According to Hannah Rachel Bell they both reflect sacred relationship with the natural world, the bi