Nolan on Nolan: Sydney Nolan in His Own Words - Hardcover

Sidney Nolan (1917-1992), myth maker and creator of the iconic Ned Kelly images, is one of the most significant artists Australia has produced. In this distinctive book, the artist becomes his own subject. Extracts from his notebooks, diaries, letters, interviews and poetry take us on the intellectual and emotional journeys which carried him around the world and which kept his art, and often his life, outside the comfort zone. The material from the notebooks, published here for the first time, offers unique insight into Nolan's creative process, while the collection as a whole reveals a complex personality and an artist who resists stylistic categorisation. It expands and recasts perceptions of his views on art making, friendships, travel, music and literature, throwing new light on his work.

Nancy Underhill was Foundation Head of the Department of Art History and first Director of the University Art Museum at the University of Queensland. She has been on the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, Chair of the Australian Art History and Museums Associations, author of Making Australian Art 1916-1949, and co-editor of Letters of John Reed: Defining Australian Cultural Life 1920-1981, published by Penguin in 2001. Over the last six years she has spent extensive periods ordering the archive at Nolan's home and selecting material for Nolan on Nolan.