Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin established the academic discipline of Art History at ANU where he was the Sir William Dobell Professor.  He studied art history at the universities of Melbourne, Moscow, London and Oxford and works internationally as an art historian, art critic and curator.  He has published over twenty-five books and over two thousand articles dealing with various aspects of art. In 2014 his massive Australian Art: A History was published by Melbourne University Publishing. 

For several decades Grishin worked with Brack and in 1990 published a two-volume monograph The Art of John Brack.