Permanent Revolution : Mike Brown and the Australian Avant-Garde 1953-1997. by Haese, Richard - 2011

Melbourne University Publishing, 2012-02-01. Hardcover. New.

Carlton: The Miegunyah Press. 2011. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 297 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Carlton, Victoria: The Miegunyah Press, 2011. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. In 1961 the 22-year-old Mike Brown joined the New Zealand artist, Ross Crothall, in an old terrace house in inner Sydney s Annandale. Over the following two years the artists filled the house with a remarkable body of work. Launched with an equally extraordinary exhibition, the movement they called Imitation Realism introduced collage, assemblage and installation to Australian art for the first time. Laying the groundwork for a distinctive Australian postmodernism, Imitation Realism was also the first Australian art movement to respond in a profound way to Aboriginal art, and to the tribal art of New Guinea and the Pacific region. By the mid-1960s Brown was already the most controversial figure in Australian art. In 1963 a key work was thrown out of a major traveling exhibition for being overtly sexual; a year later he publicly attacked Sydney artists and critics for having failed the test of… Read More

Melbourne University Publishing, 2012-02-01. Hardcover. Like New.

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