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This exhibition offers an insight into the shifting nature of tastes and styles. Many of the artists in the show were covered fairly extensively in Bernard Smith’s Australian Painting (1962) and Robert Hughes’ The Art of Australia (1966). Whilst coverage was continued by James Gleeson, Ross Luck and Christopher Heathcote in various publications, virtually all the subsequent histories of Australian art – by writers as diverse as Andrew Sayers, Christopher Allen, Sasha Grishin and Patrick McCaughey – have, for the most part, made only the briefest reference to the artists, though this can …