Janine Burke
Janine Burke is the award-winning author of fifteen books of art history, biography and fiction. Between 1977 and 1982, she lectured in art history at the Victorian College of the Arts before resigning to write full time. She has degrees in art history from the University of Melbourne, La Trobe University and Deakin University. She has written extensively on the Heide Circle, including Joy Hester, Dear Sun: The Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed and The Eye of the Beholder: Albert Tucker's Photographs. Australian Gothic, her acclaimed biography of Tucker, was published by Knopf in 2002 and the final book in the Heide quartet, The Heart Garden, a biography of Sunday Reed, was released in in She has lectured extensively on art, curated exhibitions, written for newspapers and journals and acted as a consultant to films anddocumentaries. Dr Burke has the approval and co-operation of the Freud Museum, London, where the collectionis currently housed.
Books by Janine Burke
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The Gods Of Freud
by Janine BurkeA stunning and surprising re-evaluation of Freud’s life and legacy told through his extraordinary art collection and his life-long obsession with acquiring antiquities.
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The Heart Garden
by Janine BurkeA captivating biography of Sunday Reed, the woman behind Australian modernist art.
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Australian Gothic
by Janine Burke'AUSTRALIAN GOTHIC is a genuine masterpiece…the most closely textured account of any Australian artist's life I have ever read.' Patrick McCaughey
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Joy Hester
by Janine BurkeA vivid and fascinating biography of artist Joy Hester, whose recent retrospective exhibitions have received wide critical and public acclaim







