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Not Quite Straight: A Memoir

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Not Quite Straight: A Memoir

Contributors:

By (Author) Jeffrey Smart

ISBN:

9781741666274

Publisher:

Random House Australia

Imprint:

Vintage (Australia)

Publication Date:

1st April 2008

Country:

Australia

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Individual artists, art monographs
Biography: general

Dewey:

300

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

496

Dimensions:

Width 128mm, Height 197mm, Spine 31mm

Weight:

386g

Description

Australian artist Jeffrey Smart's wicked and utterly engaging memoir. Born in respectable (read- dull) Adelaide in 1921, Jeffrey Smart made his first Grand Tour of Europe at age 4. By 5 he had discovered Sex (with a female classmate) and Crime. By 18 he d decided he was the only person in Australia who was not quite straight . The subsequent decades brought further enlightenment, more travel, study with Fernand Leger, artistic development, adventures high and low, international acclaim, friends famous and infamous and - fittingly for someone who refers to himself as a European who carries an Australian passport - a permanent return to the ancient, sun-soaked landscape of Tuscany. This is Jeffrey Smart's account of that very full life. He writes with a wicked wit of his family, friends and lovers, and of his jobs, including being the much-loved Phidias in ABC Radio s The Argonauts and the more lowly position of sink-scrubber on a slow boat to London, before finding fame as an artist. Throughout he is candid, funny and engaging. Like Smart s paintings, Not Quite Straight offers a singular perspective shaped by a unique life.

Author Bio

Jeffrey Smart is one of Australia s best-known and most-loved artists. He was born in Adelaide in 1921 and moved to Tuscany in the 1970s. Jeffrey passed away on the 20th June, aged 91.

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