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'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.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Dedication: For John, Kenneth, Zoe, Georgia and Thomas Underhill.
In memory of my husband Peter Underhill
With gratitude to
Lisa, Barry, Eve and Henry Johnson
Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Unhatched Eggs
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , July 2015;
— Review of Sidney Nolan : A Life 2015 single work biography -
Uncharitable Caricature of a Complex Man
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 July 2015; (p. 20)
— Review of Sidney Nolan : A Life 2015 single work biography -
The Man Behind The Nolan Myth
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6 June 2015; (p. 6) 'His paintings created myths but, as Phil Brown writes, a new book uncovers the fact that artist Sidney Nolan’s greatest myth-making concerned his own life.' -
Portrait of Nolan, Warts and All
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 5 June 2015; (p. 15)
— Review of Sidney Nolan : A Life 2015 single work biography
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Portrait of Nolan, Warts and All
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 5 June 2015; (p. 15)
— Review of Sidney Nolan : A Life 2015 single work biography -
Uncharitable Caricature of a Complex Man
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 July 2015; (p. 20)
— Review of Sidney Nolan : A Life 2015 single work biography -
Unhatched Eggs
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , July 2015;
— Review of Sidney Nolan : A Life 2015 single work biography -
The Man Behind The Nolan Myth
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6 June 2015; (p. 6) 'His paintings created myths but, as Phil Brown writes, a new book uncovers the fact that artist Sidney Nolan’s greatest myth-making concerned his own life.'
Awards
- 2015 longlisted Colin Roderick Award