Permanent Revolution

Author(s): Richard Haese

Art, Design & Photography | Secondhand

In 1960 the 22-year-old Mike Brown joined the New Zealand artist, Ross Crothall, in an old terrace house in inner Sydney's Annandale. Over the following two years the artists filled the house with a remarkable body of work. Launched with an equally extraordinary exhibition, the movement they called Imitation Realism introduced collage, assemblage and installation to Australian art for the first time. Laying the groundwork for a distinctive Australian postmodernism, Imitation Realism was also the first Australian art movement to respond in a profound way to Aboriginal art, and to the tribal art of New Guinea and the Pacific region. 'Permanent Revolution' is the first full-scale account of Mike Brown's life and work. It is also a ground-breaking portrait of one of the most vital, disputatious and creative periods of Australian art.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780522860801
  • : Melbourne University Press
  • : Melbourne University Press
  • : 1.328
  • : September 2011
  • : 264mm X 215mm X 25mm
  • : Australia
  • : November 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Richard Haese
  • : Hardback
  • : 11-Nov
  • : 700.92
  • : 272