John Brack (10 May 1920 – 11 February 1999) was an Australian painter, and a member of the Antipodeans group. According to one critic, Brack’s early works captured the idiosyncrasies of their time “more powerfully and succinctly than any Australian artist before or since. Brack forged the iconography of a decade on canvas as sharply as Barry Humphries did on stage.”
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s John Brack established a reputation as one of Australia’s leading artists. This publication looks at the second half of his career in which he produced a startling new series of paintings focusing upon the panoramic history of past civilisations and the persistence of violence.
Catalogue of an art exhibition held at Heide Museum of Modern Art, 1 April -28 May 2000
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. #0921
Includes bibliographical references (p. 44)
(Limited reprint edition of 1000 copies.) Examines the second half of John Brack’s career in which the artist produced startling new series of paintings focusing upon the panoramic history of past civilisations, territorial battles and the persistence of violence in human interaction, the noise and spirit of childhood play, and recognition of the greater replenishing cycles of life. Published to accompany the exhibition on 1 April to 28 May 2000 at Heide Museum of Modern art in Bulleen, Victoria. Offers a comprehensive overview of Brack’s concerns with the universal themes of human life. There are paintings and watercolours from the last 20 years of the artists’ working life.