What Artists See
essays
$28.65
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2025
Summary
Through the Artist’s Eyes: Essays on Creativity and Vision
A luminous collection of essays on art, obsession and creativity from one of Australia’s best critics
Why do we revere the figure of the artist? Is the drive to create an innate human instinct or a form of compulsion? Is the provocateur more lauded than the realist? Why do artists do what they do, day after day, in a display of discipline and will?
The twelve essays in this collection offer g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923192379 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 192319237X |
| Author: | Quentin Sprague |
| Publisher: | Monash University Publishing |
| Imprint: | Monash University Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 104mm x 210mm x 194mm |
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About The Author
Quentin Sprague
Quentin Sprague is the author of The Stranger Artist, which won the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Nonfiction, and a monograph on the late Australian painter Ken Whisson. His art criticism appears widely, including regularly in The Monthly, as well as in monographs and exhibition catalogues published by the National Gallery of Victoria, Monash University Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. He has worked variously as a curator, an academic, an art coordinator and an artist, and lives in Canberra, on Ngunnawal Country.
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