Ian Fairweather
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of Australian art biography, Murray Bail's Ian Fairweather presents a richly detailed portrait of one of the most enigmatic and unconventional painters in Australian art history. Bail chronicles Fairweather's extraordinary life — from his Scottish birth and years of restless wandering across Asia, to his legendary 1952 raft voyage from Darwin to Timor, and his eventual reclusive existence on Bribie Island in Queensland. The biography illuminates how Fairweather's nomadic existence and deep engagement with Chinese calligraphy and Eastern philosophy profoundly shaped his abstract, gestural canvases, which occupy a singular place between Eastern and Western artistic traditions. Written with the precision and literary sensibility one would expect from a celebrated novelist, Bail's prose is measured yet evocative, capturing both the man's fierce independence and the haunting beauty of his work. This authoritative study remains the definitive account of a painter who resisted categorisation and whose art continues to captivate scholars and collectors alike.
Author: Murray Bail
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, Bay Books
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of Australian art biography, Murray Bail's Ian Fairweather presents a richly detailed portrait of one of the most enigmatic and unconventional painters in Australian art history. Bail chronicles Fairweather's extraordinary life — from his Scottish birth and years of restless wandering across Asia, to his legendary 1952 raft voyage from Darwin to Timor, and his eventual reclusive existence on Bribie Island in Queensland. The biography illuminates how Fairweather's nomadic existence and deep engagement with Chinese calligraphy and Eastern philosophy profoundly shaped his abstract, gestural canvases, which occupy a singular place between Eastern and Western artistic traditions. Written with the precision and literary sensibility one would expect from a celebrated novelist, Bail's prose is measured yet evocative, capturing both the man's fierce independence and the haunting beauty of his work. This authoritative study remains the definitive account of a painter who resisted categorisation and whose art continues to captivate scholars and collectors alike.