商品簡介
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 Ashton''s 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.Whiteley''s early paintings startled critics and fellow artists. With their sensuality of colour and erotic under-drawing, two basic subjects were evident: the landscape and the nude. Sometimes pursued separately, sometimes juxtaposed, and often intriguingly combined, these elements became the mainstay of his oeuvre.This book, pu
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Bryan Robertson was Director of the Whitechapel Gallery from 1952 to 1968.
