Encyclopedia of Australian Art, The

Revised edition. Widely referred to as the ‘Bible’ of Australian art, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art is the major reference work on Australian art 1770-1994. Provides bibliographies of more than 3,000 Australian painters, sculptors, printmakers, curators, directors, writers, art societies, organizations, and groups significant in the visual arts in Australia from pre-white settlement to 1994.

Alan McCulloch (1908-92) was one of Australia’s foremost art critics. He wrote widely for Australian and international art journals and was director of the Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre 1970-91. His other books included The Golden Age of Australian Art, the Heidelberg School and Artists of the Australian Goldrush. Susan McCulloch is Alan McCulloch’s daughter and a Melbourne-based art writer and publisher. She has written on the visual and other arts for newspapers and magazines including the Age, Australian, Bulletin and Melbourne Herald-Sun. pp. 879 illusts #0318 (Exceptionally item, 2.6 kg and thus not suited to overseas sales.)