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Author Grishin, Sasha, author

Title Garry Shead : the apotheosis of Ern Malley / Sasha Grishin ; editor Anna Voigt ; preface by Barry Pearce
Published Woollahra, N.S.W. : Voigt Drury Publishing, 2008
©2008

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 MELB  700.92 Shead Gri/Gst  AVAILABLE
Description 143 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 x 24 cm
Contents Preface / Barry Pearce -- The apotheosis of Ern Malley / Sasha Grishin -- The colour plates -- Endnotes -- Biography -- Solo exhibitions (selected) -- Group exhibitions (selected) -- Public collections -- Selected bibliography -- List of colour plates
Summary The idea of a series on Ern Malley took most serious root with Shead after his portrait of Tom Thompson won the Archibald Prize for 1993. Max Harris wrote a letter to Thompson in May that year, declaring that the artist, whose name he had forgotten, had raised a ghost. Harris's comments made an indelible marker for the future
Analysis Painting (Australia)
Individual artists
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: page 139
Subject Shead, Garry, 1942-
Art, Australian -- 20th century.
Painters, Australian -- 20th century
Literary forgeries and mystifications.
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Art -- Australia.
Art, Modern -- Australia -- 20th century.
Author Shead, Garry, 1942- artist
Voigt, Anna, editor
Malley, Ern. Darkening ecliptic.
LC no. 2008426790
ISBN 9780958975957 (hardback)