The Life and Work of Ante Dabro, Australian-Croatian Sculptor

"""The Life and Work of Ante Dabro, Australian-Croatian Sculptor: The Midnight Sea in the Blood"" is a comprehensive biography of a gifted, influential, and acclaimed sculptor who has worked at his art for more than 60 years. A very highly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and college/university library Artist Biography/Memoir collections. -- Midwest Comprehensive, definitively informative, thoroughly 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation. -- Midwest Original and compelling: The work of a master biographer and storyteller. Peter Read’s biography of sculptor Ante Dabro takes us inside the artist’s life and creative process in an unforgettable way. Mark McKenna, University of Sydney, Australia Peter Read’s story of Ante Dabro is the fascinating account of a Croatian migrant’s quest to pursue an artistic life in an era of rapid change in social values and artistic taste. It is the biography of an accomplished sculptor but much more besides – an account of the remarkable creative response of a man steeped in centuries of cultural tradition and artistic practice to living and working in what settler Australians understood as a new country. -- Frank Bongiorno AM, Professor of History, The Australian National University With unflinching honesty, deep respect and his own questing search for integrity, Peter Read takes us into the life and work of a restless artist. “Whatever you stand for I’ll be against”, Ante Dabro declares, and Read meets that challenge head-on in this compelling portrait. You can’t but benefit from testing yourself in the exchange between this brave author and his proud, defiant subject. — Nicholas Brown, Professor of History, Australian National University"