Gary Werskey, a cultural historian and biographer who holds a PhD in history from Harvard University, is an Honorary Associate in the Department of History, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. His latest publication is Picturing a Nation: The Art & Life of A.H. Fullwood (NewSouth Books, 2021). With Natalie Wilson (Curator of Australian & Pacific Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales), he curated the National Library of Australia exhibition, A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas.
Books & arts
Meeting the moment
Gary Werskey
29 April 2025
A sociologist’s dissection of hyperglobalisation and its legacies
Books & arts
The good fight
Gary Werskey
11 December 2024
How two political consultants pushed the Democratic Party towards their imagined middle ground
Books & arts
The impress of war
Gary Werskey
12 October 2024
How Paris’s “Terrible Year” shaped impressionist art
Books & arts
A style we could call our own?
Gary Werskey
12 April 2021
It’s time for a new conversation about Australian impressionism
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