Reviews : Sweeping Across Art History from Australia

The following art history-related books are reviewed: (1) "A People Learning: Colonial Victorians and Their Public Museums, 1860-1880" by Kathleen Fennessy (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007); (2) "Perils of the Studio: Inside the Artistic Affairs of Bohemian Melbourne" by Alex Taylor (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007); (3) "Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture, 1917-1967" Edited by Ann Stephen, Andrew McNamara, Philip Goad, with a foreward by Daniel Thomas (The Miegunyah Press, 2007); (4) "Savage Luxury: Modernist Designs in Melbourne 1930-1939" by Nanette Carter (Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2007); (5) "The Formalesque: A Guide to Modern Art and Its History" by Bernard Smith (Macmillan, 2007); (6) "Australian Pastoral: The Making of a White Landscape" by Jeanette Hoorn (Fremantle Press, 2007); and (7) "Nolan on Nolan: Sidney Nolan in His Own Words" Edited by Nancy Underhill (Viking, 2007).