Looks at the Australian artist Andrew Sibley who can create an entire imaginative world in a single painting. this leads to enormous diversity in his work.

This richly detailed and colourfully illustrated book explores via a series of key themes the work of Melbourne artist Andrew Sibley. A self-confessed obsessive with demonic energy his many portraits entered the Archibald Prize and the more recent landscape paintings are also treated in sections in the book.

With a focus on the literary and visual arts - in particular poetry, the novel, and painting - The Third Metropolis considers the relationship of these works of art to the actual history of the city - political, economic and demographic.

Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.

Social setting - Australian poetry - Australian fiction - Australian drama - Ballads and popular verse; The Bulletin - Henry Lawson - Joseph Furphy - Christopher Brennan - Henry Handel Richardson - Kenneth Slessor - Judith Wright - Patrick White - Christina Stead - Martin Boyd.