Out of Australia: Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas

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This ground-breaking book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first emerged in the 1940s. Beginning with the artists of the 'Angry Penguins' movement, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Sidney Nolan, whose work exhibited a new strain of surrealism and expressionism, the book continues with the rich variety of 1970s work by Jan Seberg, Robert Jacks and George Baldessin, moving through to contemporary artists such as Rover Thomas and Judy Watson. Stephen Coppel traces the major developments in Australian art from the 1940s to the present day, and examines the significant interplay with the British art scene. The book includes a substantial essay outlining the major developments in Australian art since the 1940s, the reception of Australian art in Britain and the recent rise of Aboriginal printmaking. It features 127 works by 61 artists, and includes concise artists' biographies and individual commentaries on the works.

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Stephen Coppel is the Jim Slaughter Curator of the modern collection of prints and drawings at the British Museum. His previous publications include Picasso and Printmaking in Paris, Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibitions, and The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock, Avigdor Arikha From Life: Drawings and Prints 1965--2005 and Out of Australia: Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas, all published by The British Museum Press. He is also the author of Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School. Wally Caruana was Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1984-2001, and is the author of Aboriginal Art (World of Art series). He is an independent consultant specializing in Indigenous Australian art.