Rainforest
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In Rainforest, celebrated Australian painter Charles Blackman transports the viewer into the primordial heart of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems, presenting a stunning collection of artworks that capture the lush, mysterious, and untamed beauty of the rainforest. With text by the distinguished poet and critic Al Alvarez, the book unites Blackman's luminous visual imagination with incisive literary commentary, creating an immersive dialogue between image and word that is both intellectually stimulating and aesthetically breathtaking. Blackman, one of the most revered figures of the Antipodean art movement, is renowned for his dreamlike, emotionally charged canvases, and in Rainforest he channels that same visionary intensity into a meditation on nature, wilderness, and the sublime. The collaboration with Alvarez — whose critical acumen elevated some of the 20th century's most important literary and artistic conversations — lends the work a rare depth that transcends the conventional art book format. Together, they craft an encounter with the natural world that leaves the reader questioning where the boundary between reality and reverie truly lies.
Author: Charles Blackman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1988, Macmillan
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In Rainforest, celebrated Australian painter Charles Blackman transports the viewer into the primordial heart of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems, presenting a stunning collection of artworks that capture the lush, mysterious, and untamed beauty of the rainforest. With text by the distinguished poet and critic Al Alvarez, the book unites Blackman's luminous visual imagination with incisive literary commentary, creating an immersive dialogue between image and word that is both intellectually stimulating and aesthetically breathtaking. Blackman, one of the most revered figures of the Antipodean art movement, is renowned for his dreamlike, emotionally charged canvases, and in Rainforest he channels that same visionary intensity into a meditation on nature, wilderness, and the sublime. The collaboration with Alvarez — whose critical acumen elevated some of the 20th century's most important literary and artistic conversations — lends the work a rare depth that transcends the conventional art book format. Together, they craft an encounter with the natural world that leaves the reader questioning where the boundary between reality and reverie truly lies.