Book Condition: Near Fine apart from some yellowing/tanning to Page Edges. Original black boards with gilt title and credit to spine, colour photographic plates, illustrated endpapers. 310 pages including bibliography. DJ appears to have some white paint marks which are in fact part of the cover art work, as intended, an illustration of the topic, Painting (fooled me for a minute or two!). Minimal shelfwear to DJ edges. Study of the work and experiences of notable Australian war artists, with chapters on Dargie, Moore, Forster, Nora Heysen, Parkin, Jack, Coburn, Crooke, Angus, Fletcher, Beattie, Amor, Sharpe, Peter Churcher, Lewis Miller. These artists were compelled to record what they saw, from Alan Moore's bleak sketches of the horror of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to Ray Parkin's drawings of the tropical beauty that lay just beyond the barbed wire of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp he was interned in, to Rick Amor's imposing and thought-provoking oil paintings of the destruction in East Timor in 1999.
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