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I read a book about the Australian artist Sidney Nolan.
The Ned Kelly and the Burke and Wills is good, otherwise I don't like it much.
One reason I don't like it is that it plays into the myth that the Australian spirit is in the bush and outback.
( Counihan was a prolific contemporary of Nolan and pictured Australians where they lived, in the cities, yet barely anyone knows of him )
Would I have some Nolan hanging up, no.