Sidney Nolan: A Life

By Nancy Underhill

Book Overview

Digging through the myths around Australia s most famous artist, many of which he created himself as a masterful self-promoter, this book is the biography that Sidney Nolan deserves. In an authoritative, insightful and often irreverent biography that fully charts Nolan s life and work, Nancy Underhill peels back the layers from a complicated, expedient and manipulative artistic genius. She carries the story from Nolan s 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 friendships with some of the twentieth century s most famous figures: Patrick White, Albert Tucker, Benjamin Britten, Robert Lowell, Stephen Spender and Kenneth Clark."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1921410884
• ISBN13: 9781921410888
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 408 Pages