Writer and art historian

TRAUDI ALLEN
Traudi Allen

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Traudi Allen has written on Australian art for many years, charting its fashions and preoccupations and documenting the work of some of Australia’s most respected artists.

More recently she has turned to writing fiction.

Art History

John Perceval

John Perceval -Art and Life 2nd Edition

This book presents a powerful insight into the art of John Perceval and reminds us what a strong and fascinating artist he was.

Gerard Vaughan, Director, National Gallery of Australia

HOMESICKNESS:
NATIONALISM IN AUSTRALIAN
VISUAL CULTURE

Homesickness: Nationalism in Australian visual culture

Traudi Allen’s detailed and meticulously researched book Homesickness: investigates how what we see tells us who we are and who we are, informs what we see, helping us to understand both the blessings, the dangers and the mysteries of national identity.

Joanna Murray-Smith, Playwright and novelist

Cross-currents
in Contemporary
Australian art

Cross-Currents in Contemporary Australian Art

This book identifies aims and ideas in Australian art and brings new insights to conventional arguments.

ROAR!

Roar! And quieter moments from a group of Melb artists 1980-1993

An account of a dynamic group of Melbourne painters who circumvented the system to manage their careers themselves.

fiction

‘As much as I have been engrossed in writing about others: their world-views, and the creative ways they have depicted them, I have my own preoccupations, experiences and musings: all pressing forcefully to be heard.’

Fiction

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