Art

The Revolutionary Century by Alison Carroll & Every 23 Days by Sarah Bond, Alison Carroll and Claire Watson

Item: The Revolutionary Century
Author: Peter Hill

by Peter Hill •

November 2010, no. 326

The Revolutionary Century: Art in Asia 1900–2000 by Alison Carroll

Macmillan Art Publishing, $99 hb, 208 pp

Every 23 Days: 20 Years Touring Asia by Sarah Bond, Alison Carroll and Claire Watson

Asialink, 96 pp

Art

The Revolutionary Century by Alison Carroll & Every 23 Days by Sarah Bond, Alison Carroll and Claire Watson

by Peter Hill •

November 2010, no. 326

If you were to tell me that a book had been written that covered a century of art in Asia, from 1900 to 2000, and that its geographic range moved from Japan to Pakistan and Indonesia, to Nepal, the Australian outback, and Cambodia, I would initially ask how many volumes it contained. That such a book exists, in a fairly slim volume, is tribute to the skills of its author, Alison Carroll. How has she done it?

Peter Hill

Peter Hill is a Glasgow-born Australian. He works as an artist, writer, and curator. His book Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper (Canongate/Random House Australia) won a Saltire Award in 2004 at the National Library of Scotland.