Author Description

Product Description Thoroughly researched and lavishly illustrated, this study is the first biography of acclaimed Australian artist Ian Burn. Chronicling his early years as a landscape painter in Australia, this account follows his journey to London and New York, where he became a part of the conceptual art movement of the 1970s. Also explored are Burn's intense politics and a decade's worth of significant career struggles. About the Author Ann Stephen is an art historian and curator of social history at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. She collaborated with Ian Burn in writing The Necessity of Australian Art: An Essay About Interpretation and edited and curated Artists Think: The Late Works of Ian Burn. She has also edited or coedited numerous other books, including The Lions of Retreat Street: A Chinese Temple in Inner-Sydney and Pirating the Pacific: Images of Travel, Trade & Tourism.