Brian Dunlop has never deviated from his commitment to an aesthetic that values the endless resources of the traditional skills of painting and the paradigm of nature. Trends and fads have never enticed him from his course. The price of this stubborn integrity has often seen him disregarded by the fashion-makers and fashion-followers of art, who accept obsolescence as the inevitable consequence of change and who have set up an often spurious and unacceptable notion of what it means to be radical in art.

BRIAN DUNLOP isoneof Australia's leading figurative and stilllife painters and this book presents a perceptive commentary on the different phases of his distinguished career.

Presented here are both his Australian and European works.Dunlop has lived and worked in Sydney and Ebenezer, New South Wales, and at Panton Hill and Port Fairy in Victoria. However, he has also painted in Tuscany, Rome,Skyros, Majorca, Morocco and India,adding a richness and vitality to his oeuvre.

Dunlop's work encompasses portraits, still lifes, landscapes and interiors in a variety of media, and has been internationally acclaimed.He was awarded the Sulman Prize for genre painting in 1980 and his work is representcd in all major Australian galleries.

This monograph is recognised as thc definitive overview of the artist's work, and this new edition includes a chapter on Dunlop's most recent paintings -- produced at his 'Eumeralla' property, west of Port Fairy. Included are several new portraits and a selection of still lifes,interiors and landscapes.

Foreword

BRIAN DUNLOP

 A Web of Influences

 A Common Rhythm

 A New Beginning: Panton Hill

 Knowing and Unknowing

 Discovering Spiritual Naturalism: Europe

 Weighted Towards Realism: Ebenezer

 The Grail Within

 Closer to the Magic Shore: Port Fairy

 Life and Spirit

 Out of Byzantium

Colour Plates

Black and White Figures

Artist Biography

List of Colour Plates

List of Black and White Figures