New Releases by Ali Smith

Third edition of a history of Australian painting, first published in 1962 and revised in 1971. The relationship between international influences and changing political, social and artistic contexts remains central. This edition includes three new chapters by Terry Smith extending the coverage to 1990 and outlining the various influences of conceptual art, new interest in Aboriginal painting, and feminist and postmodernist theories. Illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white reproductions. Includes notes and index.

Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - ''Autumn'' is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.