Noel Counihan's art was inspired by a profound political commitment from adolescence until death. His career took a rich and varied shape quite unlike that of other major Australian artists. This biography reveals how Counihan's passion and sexual vitality were transformed into an expression of the suffering and endurance of those working-class Australians whom he loved, and of the hope that he held for their future. It also reveals the way in which the representation of women in all aspects of life obsessed him. Much of the book is devoted to the reception of Counihan's art. It suggests that despite a degree of marginalization, particularly during the Cold War, Australia was a society possessed of a culture tolerant enough to find in the end a professional place for an unremitting critic of its institutions.
- ISBN10 0195535871
- ISBN13 9780195535877
- Publish Date 11 October 1993
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 27 March 2002
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Oxford University Press Australia
- Imprint OUP Australia and New Zealand
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 576
- Language English