Selected Pen Drawings
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: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few artists have wielded a pen with the ferocious energy and sensual audacity of Norman Lindsay, and Selected Pen Drawings presents a stunning testament to his singular mastery. This curated collection gathers some of the most celebrated works from one of Australia's most controversial and technically gifted draughtsmen, whose sinuous line work conjures mythological worlds, Arcadian fantasies, and figures of extraordinary vitality. Each plate reveals a consummate craftsman at work — bold, uncompromising, and deeply rooted in a classical tradition reimagined through a distinctly antipodean lens. Lindsay's draftsmanship occupies a unique and contested space in the history of Western art: at once indebted to the Renaissance masters he idolised and unmistakably his own, charged with a philosophy of Creative Effort that he argued was the very engine of civilisation. This volume serves as both an aesthetic document and an act of cultural provocation, preserving work that was, for much of its creator's lifetime, suppressed, seized, and censored. For those who have never encountered Lindsay's pen at full force, the experience is nothing short of revelatory.
Author: Norman Lindsay
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Bonanza Books
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few artists have wielded a pen with the ferocious energy and sensual audacity of Norman Lindsay, and Selected Pen Drawings presents a stunning testament to his singular mastery. This curated collection gathers some of the most celebrated works from one of Australia's most controversial and technically gifted draughtsmen, whose sinuous line work conjures mythological worlds, Arcadian fantasies, and figures of extraordinary vitality. Each plate reveals a consummate craftsman at work — bold, uncompromising, and deeply rooted in a classical tradition reimagined through a distinctly antipodean lens. Lindsay's draftsmanship occupies a unique and contested space in the history of Western art: at once indebted to the Renaissance masters he idolised and unmistakably his own, charged with a philosophy of Creative Effort that he argued was the very engine of civilisation. This volume serves as both an aesthetic document and an act of cultural provocation, preserving work that was, for much of its creator's lifetime, suppressed, seized, and censored. For those who have never encountered Lindsay's pen at full force, the experience is nothing short of revelatory.