Sidney Nolan : A Life

Crashing through the myths around AustraliaAEs most famous artist, many of which he created himself as a masterful self-promoter, this book gives us, finally, the biography that Sidney Nolan deserves. In an authoritative biography that fully charts NolanAEs life and work, Nancy Underhill peels back the layers from a complicated, expedient and manipulative artistic genius. She carries the story from NolanAEs birth in 1917 to his death in 1992, tracing his early life, his experience as a commercial artist, his involvement in the Angry Penguins magazine, his painting and set design, his difficult marriages and his even more difficult friendships with some of the twentieth centuryAEs most famous figures: Patrick White, Albert Tucker, Benjamin Britten, Robert Lowell, Stephen Spender and Kenneth Clark.

Featured in the June 2015 Creative Enterprises newsletter.
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