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Ever since he saw a prize exhibition as a schoolboy at the National Gallery of Victoriaa "which included such contemporaries as Charles Blackman, Leonard French, Roger Kemp, John Brack and Fred Williamsa "to the time he directed three leading art museums in Australia and America, Patrick McCaughey has championed the cause of Australian artists.He became Director of the National Gallery of Victoria 1981-87 and spent the northern academic year 1986-87 as Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University. Between 1988 and 2001 he was successively director of the Wadsworth Atheneum and the Yale Center for British Art. He directed the Festival of Ideas at the University of Melbourne 2009-11 and holds an LL.D (Honoris Causae) from the University of Melbourne.Patrick McCaughey has published widely on Australian, American and European Art.
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- PublisherThe Miegunyah Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0522861202
- ISBN 13 9780522861204
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages376
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oversized paperback, viii + 376 pages, copiously illustrated, glossy paper, NOT ex-library. Minor handling wear, book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Please note: this is a heavy volume and extra shipping will be required. -- 'Painting matters to Australia and Australians as it does in few other countries. It has formed our consciousness, our sense of where we come from, and who we are. It cries out for wider recognition and acknowledgement.' - Patrick McCaughey -- Why has Australia, an island continent with a small population, produced such original and powerful art? And why is it so little known beyond our shores? Strange Country: Why Australian Painting Matters is Patrick McCaughey's answer. Seller Inventory # 008657
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