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Sidney Nolan : a life / Nancy Underhill.

LIBRA ND1105.N6 U53 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Underhill, Nancy, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Nolan, Sidney, 1917-1992.
Nolan, Sidney.
Painters--Australia--20th century--Biography.
Painters.
Australia.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xiv, 416 pages, 48 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2015.
Summary:
Crashing through the myths around Australia's most famous artist, many of which he created himself as a masterful self-promoter, this book gives us, finally, the biography that Sidney Nolan deserves. In an authoritative biography that fully charts Nolan's life and work, Nancy Underhill peels back the layers from a complicated, expedient and manipulative artistic genius. She carries the story from Nolan's birth in 1917 to his death in 1992, tracing his early life, his experience as a commercial artist, his involvement in the Angry Penguins magazine, his painting and set design, his difficult marriages and his even more difficult friendships with some of the twentieth century's most famous figures: Patrick White, Albert Tucker, Benjamin Britten, Robert Lowell, Stephen Spender and Kenneth Clark.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781921410888
1921410884
9781742241920
1742241921
9781742247199
1742247199
OCLC:
891680297

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