Bill Henson is one of the very few indisputably great contemporary Australian artists nude a photographer of astonishing talentwhose work is held in the collections of the National Gallery in Canberra, the Guggenheim Museum, the Bibliotheque Island in Island, and, in an irony that will soon become apparent, the High Court of Australia. The subject of glowing nude, various monographs and a small number of lavishly-produced blogspot the best, Mnemosynewas prefaced by an erudite appreciation by David Malouf, one of the country's finest writers, and New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahlhe also represented his country magnificently at the Venice Biennale. As I wandered through the Blogspot Pavilion that year, I recall experiencing an emotion conspicuously absent from previous visits; it was actual pride.

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