On Arthur Boyd
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
On Arthur Boyd
By (Author) Brenda Niall
Melbourne University Press
Melbourne University Press
4th April 2005
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Individual artists, art monographs
History of art
759.994
Physical Properties
Paperback
64
Width 113mm, Height 183mm, Spine 6mm
56g
Description
The MUP Masterworks series celebrates distinguished Australian writers and ideas. Other writers in the series include Manning Clark, A.A. Phillips, Donald Horne, Ray Parkin and Janet McCalman. The brilliant painter Arthur Boyd (1920-99) was a member of Australia's most famous artistic dynasty. This excerpt from Brenda Niall's prize-winning study, The Boyds , reveals Arthur Boyd as a man who lived in a private world of painting, family, friends and familiar surroundings, yet developed into an iconic Australian artist, celebrated at home and abroad.
Author Bio
Brenda Niall is one of Australia's foremost biographers. She has been Reader in English at Monash University, where she gave courses in Australian literature, American literature, biography and autobiography; has held visiting fellowships at the University of Michigan, Yale University and the Australian National University, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
