Strange Country: Why Australian Painting Matters by Patrick McCaughey

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. A few faint marks on first page of book. Remnant of price sticker on back cover.

Patrick McCaughey has lived and worked for half his professional life overseas and for all that time says the pull of Australian art on his imagination has never ceased. He wondered how he could best show the world why and how the island continent with its small population has made such a distinctive and powerful contribution to the world of art. This book is his answer.

Covers from the colonial experience to Australian impressionism, Russell Drysdale, Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd, John Olsen to Brett Whiteley, Ian Fairweather, Godfrey Miller and Roger Kemp, Fred Williams and the lost and found narrative of painting after 1970.