Arthur Boyd
Arthur Boyd

Author: Darleen Bungey

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published:

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 1741760054

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Offers information on the Australian painter Arthur Boyd (1920- ), presented by Gallery Savah. Includes a biographical sketch of Boyd and contains images and descriptions of some of his collagraphs.

A Quest for Enlightenment
A Quest for Enlightenment

Author: Christopher Heathcote

Publisher: Macmillan Education AU

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781876832438

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The most publicly accessible art of the late Roger Kemp is perhaps the magnificent tapestries that hang in the great hall of the National Gallery of Victoria. This major figure of Australia's post war art world is the subject of Christopher Heathcote's latest book.

Dark Night
Dark Night

Author: Martin Edmond

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1775580563

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In 1984, on his way to a major exhibition opening, celebrated New Zealand painter Colin McCahon went missing for 24 hours in Sydney, Australia. He was discovered by police the next day on a bench in Centennial Park with no identification and suffering from amnesia; by all accounts, McCahon was never quite the same from this night until his death three years later. This work of creative nonfiction underscores the life and work of Colin McCahon and traces a possible McCahon route across Sydney, wandering through bars and flop houses, streets and churches. Exploring key issues, such as the attractions of the bottle, the role of faith and religion, the illuminating power of the imagination, and the hold of family relationships, this record chronicles not only a mysterious incident but also the life and art of the man who lived it.

The Changi Brownlow
The Changi Brownlow

Author: Roland Perry

Publisher: Hachette Australia

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0733627358

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This is the moving, powerful and surprising story of a group of Australian POWs who organise an Australian Rules Football competition under the worst conditions imaginable - inside Changi prison. After Singapore falls to the Japanese early in 1942, 70 000 prisoners including 15 000 Australians, are held as POWs at the notorious Changi prison, Singapore. To amuse themselves and fellow inmates, a group of sportsmen led by the indefatigable and popular `Chicken? Smallhorn, created an Australian Football League, complete with tribunal, selection panel, umpires and coaches. The final game of the one and only season was between `Victoria? and the `Rest of Australia?, which attracted 10 000 spectators, and a unique Brownlow Medal was awarded in this unlikely setting under the curious gaze of Japanese prison guards. Meet the main characters behind this spectacle: Peter Chitty, the farm hand from Snowy River country with unfathomable physical and mental fortitude, and one of eight in his immediate family who volunteered to fight and serve in WW2; `Chicken? Smallhorn, the Brownlow-medal winning little man with the huge heart; and `Weary? Dunlop, the courageous doctor, who cares for the POWs as they endure malnutrition, disease and often inhuman treatment. Changi Brownlow is a story of courage and the invincibility of the human spirit, and highlights not only the Australian love of sport, but its power to offer consolation in times of extreme hardship.