A bone of fact / David Walsh.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, New South Wales : Picador by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xiv unnumbered pages, 368 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781742612911Subject(s): Walsh, David (David Dominic), 1961- | Walsh, David, 1961- | Walsh, David, 1961- | Walsh, David, 1961- | Walsh, David (David Dominic), 1961- | Museum of Old and New Art | Museum of Old and New Art | Museum of Old and New Art (Tas.) | Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Australia | Gamblers -- Australia -- Biography | Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting -- Australia -- Tasmania | Art museums -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Hobart | Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting -- Tasmania | Art, Modern -- Collectors and collecting | Collectors and collecting | Gamblers | Gamblers -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography | Collectors and collecting -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography | Art, Modern -- Collectors and collecting -- Australia -- Tasmania | Art, Modern -- Collectors and collecting -- Tasmania -- Biography | Art, Ancient -- Collectors and collecting -- Tasmania -- Biography | Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting -- Tasmania -- Biography | Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Biography | Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Tasmania -- Biography | Art, Modern -- Collectors and collecting -- Tasmania | Collectors and collecting -- Tasmania -- Biography | Gamblers -- Tasmania -- Biography | Art, Ancient -- Collectors and collecting -- Tasmania | Art museums -- Tasmania -- Hobart | Tasmania | Tasmania -- Biography | Hobart (Tas.) -- Social life and customs | Tasmania (Australia) -- Biography | AustralianGenre/Form: Biography.DDC classification: 708.0092 LOC classification: AM390 | .W35 2014Summary: "David Walsh - the creator of Mona in Hobart - is both a giant and an enigma in the Australian art world. A multi-millionaire who made his money gambling, David has turned a wild vision into a unique reality; he is in turns controversial, mysterious and idolised. 'A bone of fact' is his utterly unconventional and absorbing memoir..."--Inside front cover.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | B/WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | al42000200514b |
"Wherein David Walsh, Mona owner, inventories his pretensions as 'art, science, maths, smartarse, penis, narcissist', and adds author to this tally."--Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-363)
"David Walsh - the creator of Mona in Hobart - is both a giant and an enigma in the Australian art world. A multi-millionaire who made his money gambling, David has turned a wild vision into a unique reality; he is in turns controversial, mysterious and idolised. 'A bone of fact' is his utterly unconventional and absorbing memoir..."--Inside front cover.
Adult.
Pages gilt-edged; illustrated endpapers.
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