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Not Quite Straight
A Memoir
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Not Quite Straight
Jeffrey writes with a wicked wit of his family, friends and lovers, and of his jobs, including being the much-loved Phidias in ABC Radio's 'The Argonauts' and the more lowly position of sink-scrubber on a slow boat to London, before finding fame as an artist.
An updated edition of artist Jeffrey Smart's wicked and utterly engaging memoir.
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Australian artist Jeffrey Smart's wicked and utterly engaging memoir. Born in respectable (read: dull) Adelaide in 1921, Jeffrey Smart made his first Grand Tour of Europe at age 4. By 5, he had discovered sex (with a female classmate) and crime. By 18, he'd decided he was the only person in Australia who was not quite straight.
The subsequent decades brought further enlightenment, more travel, study with Fernand Léger, artistic development, adventures high and low, international acclaim, friends famous and infamous and—fittingly for someone who refers to himself as a European who carries an Australian passport—a permanent return to the ancient, sun-soaked landscape of Tuscany.
This is Jeffrey Smart's account of that very full life. He writes with a wicked wit of his family, friends and lovers, and of his jobs, including being the much-loved Phidias in ABC Radio's The Argonauts and the more lowly position of sink-scrubber on a slow boat to London, before finding fame as an artist.
Throughout, he is candid, funny, and engaging. Like Smart’s paintings, Not Quite Straight offers a singular perspective shaped by a unique life.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781741666274
Publisher: Random House Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 2008
Country: Australia
Imprint: Vintage (Australia)
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 31.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 386g
Pages: 496
About the Author
Jeffrey Smart is one of Australia s best-known and most-loved artists. He was born in Adelaide in 1921 and moved to Tuscany in the 1970s. Jeffrey passed away on the 20th June, aged 91.
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