A comprehensive monograph published to accompany Juan Davila’s major 2006 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the National Gallery of Victoria.

Davila’s work is confrontational, political, erotic, historically literate and deliberately unstable. The paintings splice Catholic iconography, colonial history, Marxism, pornography, and art-historical citation into images that refuse polite viewing. They are lush and abrasive at the same time.

This volume includes essays, critical writing, exhibition documentation, and full-colour reproductions across their entire career. An essential reference for contemporary Australian art of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.