Australian Art History

From rock art to Australian modernism, from bark paintings to the Heidelberg School, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art provides a wide-ranging overview of the movements, themes and media found in Australian art. This Companion features essays that explore the influence of different cultures on Australian art, written by some of the leading scholars and professionals working in the field.

Provides a wide-ranging reference to Indigenous Australian art, covering historical traditions and contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art practices.

Presenting the National Museum of Australia's collection of Papunya Tula art, this volume situates these works in place and time, providing unique insight into the Papunya artists' lives and cultures, and how these were expressed.

This book showcases Williams's strength as a painter and includes a wide range of oil paintings and luminous gouaches, along with material from the artist's diaries and his remarkable China sketchbook.