Arthur Boyd: Paintings 1973–1988
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Pages: Good
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One of Australia's most celebrated and enigmatic painters, Arthur Boyd produced a body of work that resists easy categorisation — raw, allegorical, and achingly human. Arthur Boyd: Paintings 1973–1988, written by Grazia Gunn, presents a comprehensive survey of Boyd's output across a richly productive fifteen-year period, cataloguing works that range from his brooding Shoalhaven River landscapes to his intensely personal mythological and figurative compositions. Produced to accompany a major travelling exhibition prepared by the Australian National Gallery in conjunction with the Australia Council for the Venice Biennale, this volume stands as both an authoritative record and a vivid window into the creative vision of a towering figure in Australian modernism. Gunn's scholarship illuminates the thematic currents running beneath Boyd's distinctive visual language — his preoccupation with the Australian landscape as a site of spiritual unease, his engagement with themes of exile, identity, and transformation, and his masterful manipulation of paint to evoke both the physical and the metaphysical. The text situates Boyd firmly within the international conversation of twentieth-century art while honouring his deeply Australian sensibility. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of serious painting alike, this catalogue raises a compelling question: how does one artist's private mythology become the shared conscience of an entire nation?
Author: Grazia Gunn
Format: Paperback
Published: 1988, Australian National Gallery, Canberra / Australia Council, Sydney
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of Australia's most celebrated and enigmatic painters, Arthur Boyd produced a body of work that resists easy categorisation — raw, allegorical, and achingly human. Arthur Boyd: Paintings 1973–1988, written by Grazia Gunn, presents a comprehensive survey of Boyd's output across a richly productive fifteen-year period, cataloguing works that range from his brooding Shoalhaven River landscapes to his intensely personal mythological and figurative compositions. Produced to accompany a major travelling exhibition prepared by the Australian National Gallery in conjunction with the Australia Council for the Venice Biennale, this volume stands as both an authoritative record and a vivid window into the creative vision of a towering figure in Australian modernism. Gunn's scholarship illuminates the thematic currents running beneath Boyd's distinctive visual language — his preoccupation with the Australian landscape as a site of spiritual unease, his engagement with themes of exile, identity, and transformation, and his masterful manipulation of paint to evoke both the physical and the metaphysical. The text situates Boyd firmly within the international conversation of twentieth-century art while honouring his deeply Australian sensibility. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of serious painting alike, this catalogue raises a compelling question: how does one artist's private mythology become the shared conscience of an entire nation?