Fairweather and China
$55.99
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2021
Summary
An exquisitely illustrated appraisal of Australia’s ‘greatest artist’ that explores his fascination with China and its centrality to his body of work.
Ian Fairweather is one of the most significant twentieth-century artists to have worked in Australia. After a life of wandering, including time spent in China, Bali and the Philippines, Fairweather settled on Bribie Island, off the coast of Queensland, where he built his own house. In 1962 a leading art critic named him ‘our greatest pa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522877168 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522877168 |
| Author: | Claire Roberts |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | The Miegunyah Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.01kg |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 310mm x 196mm |
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About The Author
Claire Roberts
Claire Roberts is an ARC Future Fellow, art historian and curator specialising in modern and contemporary Chinese art, and the cultural flows between Australia and Asia. She is Associate Professor of Art History and Curatorship in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Roberts’ curated exhibitions include ‘Xiao Lu- Impossible Dialogue’ at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, ‘Go Figure- Contemporary Chinese Portraiture’ at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, and ‘Other Histories- Guan Wei’s Fable for a Contemporary World’ at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Her books include Friendship in Art- Fou Lei and Huang Binhong (Hong Kong University Press, 2010), Photography and China (Reaktion Books, 2013) and Ian Fairweather- A Life in Letters, edited with John Thompson (Text Publishing, 2019).
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