Brett Whiteley. Art And Life

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1995
Edition: First Edition

Description: 240 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Brett Whiteley died in 1992 at the age of fifty-three, ending one of the most prodigious careers in the history of Australian art. He attended Julian Ashtons school in Sydney during the late 1950s while working at the advertising agency Lintas, and then made an impact on the Australian art world just as it was receiving unprecedented international attention. Whiteley achieved wide recognition, spending a long period abroad, exhibiting paintings, drawings and sculpture in Britain, Europe and the United States, before returning to Sydney permanently at the end of 1969. His years in London were particularly formative, when he came into contact with many of the art worlds most influential figures, including members of the Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art movements.Whiteleys early paintings startled critics and fellow artists with their sensuality of color and erotic under-drawing. At the root of all Whiteleys work was a draftsmanship of stunning virtuosity, capable of capturing all the poetic arabesque of a river in a single sweeping line of brush and ink, or the erotic curves of the human body in a few searching strokes of charcoal.This book, published to coincide with an exhibition at The Art Gallery of New South Wales - the first major retrospective of the artists work - presents an illuminating evaluation of Whiteleys achievement. Works dating from the 1950s until the last years of his life, illustrated in 180 color plates, allow Whiteleys fascinating career to be surveyed in its entirety.

ISBN: 9780500092521