On Looking at Looking: The Art & Politics of Ian Burn

Thoroughly researched and lavishly illustrated, this study is the first biography of acclaimed Australian artist Ian Burn. Chronicling his early years as a landscape painter in Australia, this account follows his journey to London and New York, where he became a part of the conceptual art movement of the 1970s. Also explored are Burn’s intense politics and a decade’s worth of significant career struggles.

n this, the first biography on Ian Burn, art historian Ann Stephen traces his extraordinary body of work from the intimate viewpoint of friend and occasional collaborator. Her account is no conventional monograph, as Stephen approaches and presents Burn’s work through a series of imaginary and real dialogs” with other artists