Publisher's Synopsis
In 1961 Mike Brown joined the New Zealand artist, Ross Crothall, in an old terrace house in inner Sydney's Annandale. Over the following two years the artists filled the house with a remarkable body of work. Launched with an equally extraordinary exhibition, the movement they called Imitation Realism was also the first Australian art movement to respond to Aboriginal art, and to the tribal art of New Guinea and the Pacific region. This is the first full-scale account of Mike Brown's life and work, and is a ground-breaking portrait of one of the most creative periods of Australian art.
