Dick Watkins : Reshaping Art and Life

• Autore: Eagle Mary <1944->
• Pubblicazione: Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (546 pages)
• Disciplina: 759.994
• Soggetto topico: Painters - Australia - 20th century; Artists - Australia - 20th century; Peintres - Australie - 20e siècle; Artistes - Australie - 20e siècle
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Birth of an artist: Sydney, 1937-1959, and London, 1959-1961 -- 2. Sydney, 1961-1965 -- 3. The movers and shakers: Watkins, the Contemporary Art Society, and Central Street Gallery, 1966-1968 -- 4. 1968 and breaking away from the field -- 5. Pouring leads to Pollock, 1970-1971 -- 6. Pollock, 1971-1973 and forever -- 7. A year in France, then on to Hong Kong: Embracing traditional landscape and dipping into Picasso, 1975-1976 -- 8. Hong Kong, Italy, and 'Plan B': 1977-1978 -- 9. Hate-love for image, 1980-1983 -- 10. A line of great works beyond Picasso: 1984 onwards -- 11. Landscape as a cultural analogue? 1984, 1993-2006 -- 12. The media as subject and style: 1988-2009 -- 13. Texts by Dick Watkins -- 14. The pendulum, 1989-2000 -- 15. 'The result of intense mental collectedness and concentration': 2005-2020 -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- Select bibliography -- Index of works -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Dick Watkins belongs to the generation of artists whose careers were launched at the high-flying end of American-based Abstraction. Almost immediately he faced up to the abrupt end of the Modern era.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dick Watkins
• ISBN: 9781760466220; 1760466220
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910897700903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II