Author Description

A text for senior students, presenting Australian and international art and artists. It is set out under 11 themes, such as popular culture, 'borrowing' in art, the expression of anger, messages and stories, abstract art, unusual ways of using paint, figures, landscapes, the surreal, and ways in which the boundaries for art are tested today. With full-colour illustrations, notes, a bibliography and an index. The writers are Melbourne graduates in art and craft.