Arthur Boyd
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of Australia's most celebrated painters, Arthur Boyd occupies a singular place in the history of modern art — a visionary whose canvases pulsate with mythological intensity, psychological depth, and the raw, haunting beauty of the Australian landscape. This exhibition catalogue, produced in conjunction with the Australian Embassy in Washington and Sydney's prestigious Wagner Gallery, documents a landmark showing of Boyd's work, presenting a curated selection of paintings that chart the artist's extraordinary creative journey from his early figurative works to his iconic Bride and Nebuchadnezzar series. Boyd's art is inseparable from the spiritual and cultural tensions that defined mid-to-late twentieth-century Australia — the collision of European heritage with an ancient, unforgiving land. His richly symbolic imagery, rendered in bold, expressionistic brushwork, draws on Biblical narrative, classical mythology, and the haunting ambiguity of the Australian bush to forge a visual language that is both universally resonant and distinctly national. For collectors, scholars, and lovers of Australian modernism, this catalogue stands as an indispensable record of a pivotal moment in Boyd's international recognition — and a testament to why his work continues to disturb, move, and astonish.
Author: Arthur Boyd
Format: Paperback
Published: 1986, The Embassy of Australia / Wagner Gallery, Sydney
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of Australia's most celebrated painters, Arthur Boyd occupies a singular place in the history of modern art — a visionary whose canvases pulsate with mythological intensity, psychological depth, and the raw, haunting beauty of the Australian landscape. This exhibition catalogue, produced in conjunction with the Australian Embassy in Washington and Sydney's prestigious Wagner Gallery, documents a landmark showing of Boyd's work, presenting a curated selection of paintings that chart the artist's extraordinary creative journey from his early figurative works to his iconic Bride and Nebuchadnezzar series. Boyd's art is inseparable from the spiritual and cultural tensions that defined mid-to-late twentieth-century Australia — the collision of European heritage with an ancient, unforgiving land. His richly symbolic imagery, rendered in bold, expressionistic brushwork, draws on Biblical narrative, classical mythology, and the haunting ambiguity of the Australian bush to forge a visual language that is both universally resonant and distinctly national. For collectors, scholars, and lovers of Australian modernism, this catalogue stands as an indispensable record of a pivotal moment in Boyd's international recognition — and a testament to why his work continues to disturb, move, and astonish.