A salute to Max Angus : Tasmanian painter / Alison Alexander
- Bib ID:
- 8562516
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Alexander, Alison, 1949 September 23-, author
- Description:
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- Hobart, Tasmania : Forty South Publishing, 2021
- 248 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780648972761 (hardcover)
- 0648972763
- Summary:
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Annotation. From humble beginnings as an apprentice signwriter duringthe Depression, Max Angus worked hard to leave commercialart behind and become a successful watercolour painter. In the process he made himself a household name in Tasmania. And as his very long life drew to a close - not many artists are still holding exhibitions at age 100 - he was acknowledged as a living treasure. Success like this might have been enough for another man, but Max's passions took him beyond his art practice to publish books on the art of watercolour, and share his painterly skills with students in the beautiful Tasmanian landscape. It was his love for the landscape that led him to try his utmost to save Lake Pedder from destruction, alongside his great friend, wilderness photographer Olegas Truchanas. To further awaken the world to the threats to the Tasmanian environment, he published The World of Olegas Truchanas after his friend's death, and later, Pedder. The story. The paintings. Rich in detail and drawing on the memories of Max's family and friends, this book brings together all the facets of his life, and in doing so, illustrates Tasmania's social history over the century that Max's life spanned. Lively, generous, articulate - and eternally dapper in his trademark beret - Max was a force for good in Tasmanian society. He has left many reminders of his life: the public art; the books he published; the environmental conservation movement that he helped to initiate; his many students who remember him with great fondness. But most of all, the paintings.
- Notes:
- includes bibliography (pages 242-243) and index.
- Subject:
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- Angus, Max, 1914-2017
- Painters -- Tasmania -- Biography
- Painting, Australian -- Tasmania -- 20th century -- Biography
- Painting, Australian -- Tasmania -- 21st century -- Biography
- Art, Australian -- Tasmania -- 20th century
- Art, Australian -- Tasmania -- 21st century
- Watercolor painting -- Tasmania
- Landscape painting -- Tasmania
- Tasmania -- Biograph
- Available From:
- 01301095
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2021
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