Description: Widely referred to as the "Bible" of Australian art, this encyclopedia is the major reference work on Australian art 1770-1994. Biographies of more than 3,000 Australian painters, sculptors, printmakers, curators, directors, writers, art societies, organizations, and groups significant in the visual arts in Australia from pre-white settlement to 1994 are provided. In addition, the author, one of Australia's foremost art critics, has written more than 30 essays showing the development of various aspects of Australian visual arts including Aboriginal art; abstractionism; Asia/Australian art links; camps such as the Heidelberg school; craft; criticism; expressionism; feminist/women's art; installation and performance art; magazines; modernism; post-modernism; sculpture; surrealism; and technology.

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