Australian
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Painters
Australian writer John Hether ington has now done with Aus tralian painters what he did so successfully with Australian writers—given us a potted bio graphy in the one book of the people most worth knowing.
Australian Painters: Forty Profiles, follows his Forty-Two Faces, and as with his book of author profiles his latest reports were originally written as a series for the Melbourne Age. Hether ington manages to portray his subjects objectively without pass ing judgment on their particular brands of art, yet he brings them all to life.
Small black and white samples of each artist’s work, together with a pen sketch of each, drawn by artist Louis Kahan, help make the book invaluable. Pro duction of the volume is of the high artistic standard we’ve come to expect from this Melbourne publishing firm.
'Australian Painters; Forty
PROFILES. F. W. Cheshire. 40/-.)