Headlands: John Beard Works 1993 - 2007
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few artists capture the raw, elemental tension between humanity and the natural world with the visceral intensity of John Beard, and Headlands: John Beard Works 1993–2007 stands as a definitive testament to his remarkable fourteen-year creative journey. This exhibition catalogue, produced in conjunction with the Drill Hall Gallery at The Australian National University, presents a sweeping survey of Beard's powerful figurative and landscape paintings, chronicling his sustained engagement with themes of endurance, isolation, and the sublime forces of the ocean and coastline. The works gathered here — spanning over a decade of relentless artistic inquiry — illustrate Beard's signature mastery of dramatic scale, muscular brushwork, and a brooding, cinematic palette that transforms the act of painting into something almost confrontational. Beard's art occupies a singular position within the Australian contemporary canon, sitting at the intersection of Expressionism and realist figuration, drawing comparisons to the great European masters while remaining unmistakably grounded in the Australian landscape and psyche. Headlands argues compellingly that Beard is not merely a painter of surfaces, but an excavator of psychological and physical extremity — his canvases demanding that the viewer reckon with mortality, courage, and the indifferent grandeur of the natural world. For collectors, scholars, and lovers of serious contemporary painting, this volume poses a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it mean to stand at the edge?
Author: John Beard
Format: Paperback
Published: 2009, Drill Hall Gallery / The Australian National University (ANU)
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few artists capture the raw, elemental tension between humanity and the natural world with the visceral intensity of John Beard, and Headlands: John Beard Works 1993–2007 stands as a definitive testament to his remarkable fourteen-year creative journey. This exhibition catalogue, produced in conjunction with the Drill Hall Gallery at The Australian National University, presents a sweeping survey of Beard's powerful figurative and landscape paintings, chronicling his sustained engagement with themes of endurance, isolation, and the sublime forces of the ocean and coastline. The works gathered here — spanning over a decade of relentless artistic inquiry — illustrate Beard's signature mastery of dramatic scale, muscular brushwork, and a brooding, cinematic palette that transforms the act of painting into something almost confrontational. Beard's art occupies a singular position within the Australian contemporary canon, sitting at the intersection of Expressionism and realist figuration, drawing comparisons to the great European masters while remaining unmistakably grounded in the Australian landscape and psyche. Headlands argues compellingly that Beard is not merely a painter of surfaces, but an excavator of psychological and physical extremity — his canvases demanding that the viewer reckon with mortality, courage, and the indifferent grandeur of the natural world. For collectors, scholars, and lovers of serious contemporary painting, this volume poses a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it mean to stand at the edge?