Discovering Dobell / Christopher Heathcote
- Bib ID:
- 7335090
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Heathcote, Christopher, 1959-, author
- Description:
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- Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, in association with TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2017
- ©2017
- 105 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781743054802 (hardback)
- Summary:
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"Discovering Dobell offers an intimate glimpse of William Dobell, the artist whose heart remained anchored in the daily life of everyday people, from the streets of Depression-raked London to Sydney's Kings Cross. Christopher Heathcote demonstrates how Dobell developed ideas from sketches to paintings. In some instances the book identifies previously unknown relationships between drawings, gouaches and important oils. Discovering Dobell features the artist's controversial and recognisable portraits of Joshua Smith, Dame Mary Gilmore and Helena Rubinstein, alongside other vital strands of his output, including affectionate images of grinning ockers, struggling young mothers, cheeky street children at play, and haughty women intent on keeping-up-appearances. This overview is rounded out with Dobell's experimental drawings and paintings from New Guinea, as well as his little-known ventures into abstract form. This book introduces the creative achievements of this great Australian painter for a new generation of art lovers." --Publisher.
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Victoria Lynn, Director, TarraWarra Museum of Art
- Discovering Dobell / Christopher Heathcote, Exhibition Curator
- London
- Sydneysiders
- Reinventing the figure.
- Notes:
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- Published to coincide with the exhibition Discovering Dobell curated by Dr Christopher Heathcote at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 27 May to 13 August 2017.
- Editor: Victoria Lynn.
- Includes biographical notes.
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- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2017
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