Whiteley: An Unauthorised Life by Margot Hilton and Graeme Blundell

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some chipping to book edges. Dust jackaet has creasing to edges. Tiny tear at back cover tail edge is now protected with book tape. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Brett Whiteley's (1939-1992) life and death is in some ways a sad and seedy saga, but his five decades spanned rapidly changing times from wartime austerity via the hedonistic 1960s to the greedy 1980s, when art prices hit the roof and kept rising. In many ways, Brett is a victim and emblem of those times, but he is also an artisitc genius and despite the varying critical opions of his work, much of it will last and remain a permanent symbol of the fertile brilliance of one man's mind. (book flap)