Colin Colahan by Garry Kinnane - ISBN: 9780522847109
Hardcover
Talent, murder, exile: an Australian artist rediscovered after a lifetime abroad.

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  • Hardcover

    195 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 1992

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Summary

The first biography of the outstanding and charming Australian painter Colin Colahan, his rich personal life and work.

Colin Colahan was an Australian painter of outstanding ability and reputation who from the 1920s to the 1970s was remarkably productive. Colahan was one of the more brilliant pupils of the painter Max Meldrum. Identification with the unfashionable ‘Meldrumites’ is one explanation for Colahan’s disappearance from the public gaze. The other has murkier origins in the st…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522847109
ISBN-10:0522847102
Author:Garry Kinnane, Colin Colahan
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:195
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 September 1992
Weight:280g
Dimensions:239mm x 161mm x 26mm
Series:Melbourne University Press Australian Lives
About The Author

Garry Kinnane

Garry Kinnane met Colahan while working on his highly acclaimed book, George Johnston- A Biography (1986), The Age non-fiction book of that year. After many years travelling, working and studying in Europe, Kinnane is now a senior lecturer in the English Department of the University of Melbourne.

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