YEARS 7 - 12 The fourth edition of The Visual Arts has been fully revised and updated. Whilst the identity of this longstanding and popular text has been maintained, several new features make this edition even more useful for Australian students of the visual arts. a new chapter surveying photography in Australia, featuring a selection of new illustrations a chapter discussing developments in Aboriginal art from early times to the present, illustrated with eighteen new colour images and a map increased coverage of Australian women artists with several new prints a brief glossary of terms to assist readers new to the language of visual arts a time-line to show the relationship between different movements diagrammatically streamlined material on international and Australian art and architecture in the 1970s and 1980s. Careful and sensitive revision has increased the readability and relevance of this material. With its clear text and high-quality illustrations, The Visual Arts will continue to provide secondary students and lay readers with a concise and comprehensive survey of the development of the visual arts from prehistoric times to the present. This new edition will provide an even stronger Australian context for the study of the visual arts.