Our flagship publication, McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art was in print for 50 years from 1968 to c 2018 when most of its last (2006) edition sold out. First written by one of Australia's foremost art critics and authors, Alan McCulloch AO in 1968 and subsequently by his daughter - art writer and publisher Susan McCulloch OAM and grand daughter, art writer and researcher Emily McCulloch Childs - over its 50 year history and five editions McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art was widely known as the `bible’ of Australian art.
The Encyclopedia's 2006 edition featured here is a lavishly illustrated, 1200 page publication comprising more than 1.2 million words on Australian art and artists whose works can be found in Australian public collections, the movements their art inspired and numerous other important aspects of Australian art.
Its 8000+ entries include:
• Biographical information on Australian artists, both indigenous and non-indigenous, art movements, arts groups, prizes, awards and galleries.
- A dedicated section on Australia’s Aboriginal art with biographical information on more than 400 individual artists and extensive essays on regions and Aboriginal-owned art centres.
- Essays on Australian art movements from art of colonial times to contemporary street and graffiti art, abstraction, modernism, new media, photography, portraiture, sculpture, and many more.
Lavishly illustrated with more than 800 images of Australian and Aboriginal Australian art, McCulloch’s Encyclopedia is both a book to browse and a scholarly reference - acknowledged as the essential book on Australian art for the professional, the art collector, the student, and the enthusiast interested in the vibrant visual art of Australia.