Ashley Crawford - Directory of Australian Art

Actually sets out to be a directory, in the sense of containing listings of practical information about the Australian art world as well as more general historical and encyclopedic material; chapters titled 'A brief overview of Australian art', 'Investment', 'A select dictionary of Australian art and artists', 'Around the galleries' and 'Art people'. I learned quite a bit from reading it - both from the concise, readable overview of the history of 'Australian art' it provides, and from the context it gave me for various individual artists whose work I've come across around the galleries over the years.