Arthur Boyd: Seven Persistent Images
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: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few figures in Australian art command the same mythic power as Arthur Boyd, whose raw, expressionistic canvases transformed the nation's cultural landscape throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Arthur Boyd: Seven Persistent Images presents a focused survey of the recurring visual obsessions that defined Boyd's extraordinary career, gathered for a Regional Gallery Tour in 1986–87 and offering audiences across Australia a rare opportunity to encounter works of profound psychological and symbolic depth. The catalogue illuminates the thematic threads — religious anguish, erotic longing, the Australian landscape as a site of spiritual reckoning — that Boyd returned to compulsively across decades of prolific output. His work, steeped in the traditions of European expressionism yet rooted in the stark physicality of the Australian bush, occupies a singular place in the canon of modern art. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of Boyd's legacy alike, this volume raises an irresistible question: what enduring truth compels an artist to paint the same image, again and again, across an entire lifetime?
Author: Arthur Boyd
Format: Paperback
Published: 1986, Australian National Gallery
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few figures in Australian art command the same mythic power as Arthur Boyd, whose raw, expressionistic canvases transformed the nation's cultural landscape throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Arthur Boyd: Seven Persistent Images presents a focused survey of the recurring visual obsessions that defined Boyd's extraordinary career, gathered for a Regional Gallery Tour in 1986–87 and offering audiences across Australia a rare opportunity to encounter works of profound psychological and symbolic depth. The catalogue illuminates the thematic threads — religious anguish, erotic longing, the Australian landscape as a site of spiritual reckoning — that Boyd returned to compulsively across decades of prolific output. His work, steeped in the traditions of European expressionism yet rooted in the stark physicality of the Australian bush, occupies a singular place in the canon of modern art. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of Boyd's legacy alike, this volume raises an irresistible question: what enduring truth compels an artist to paint the same image, again and again, across an entire lifetime?