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Nolan's Africa

by Sidney Nolan, Andrew Turley

Utilising newly opened archives, this study examines how travels in Africa, global politics and twentieth-century history influenced Sidney Nolan's art, offering a new perspective on the painter's engagement with nature and modern civilisation.

Accession 28186 ISBN 9780522880250 Publisher The Miegunyah Press
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