Dimensions
250 x 185 x 25mm
'A Story of Australian Painting' is a history based on the superb but not widely known ICI Australia collection - one of the country's most extensive corporate collections.
With over 120 colour plates and 50 black and white illustrations and photographs of artists and their milieux, this is an essential survey book for the general reader, art lover and student of Australian painting alike.
It tells the stores of the famous and the not-so-famous, the before-their-time and the little seen. But instead of retelling the usual Australian history illustrated by works of art, the authors take the opposite approach of writing about the works of art individually, showing them in relation to the people, time and place for which they were created.
This is an important book for everyone who recognises the riches of Australian painting.
