Claire Roberts
Autor(a) de Rapt in Colour: Korean Textiles and Costumes of the Chosen Dynasty
About the Author
Claire Roberts is a scholar and curator of Asian art. She is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Adelaide and has held fellowships at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution. Formerly Senior Curator of Asian Arts and Design at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, she has mostrar mais curated exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Queensland Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the Beijing World Art Museum at the China Millennium Monument. She has published widely on Chinese visual culture, including Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong (2010) and Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture (2012, as editor). mostrar menos
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Rapt in Colour: Korean Textiles and Costumes of the… de Huh Dong-Hwa
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Catalogue published in association with the exhibition of the same name, which toured in Australia during 1992-1993.
The exhibition focuses on art produced after the Cultural Revolution, and seeks to question preconceived notions of twentieth century art practice and what constitutes Chinese art since the re-opening of China to the rest of the world.
The exhibition focuses on art produced after the Cultural Revolution, and seeks to question preconceived notions of twentieth century art practice and what constitutes Chinese art since the re-opening of China to the rest of the world.
Ian Fairweather was an artist born in Scotland in 1891 and dying in Queensland Australia in 1974.
The book consists of an edited collection of 354 letters (out of some 700 tracked down to date) written by Fairweather over the course of his lifetime to family, friends and art world connections and both sides of the world. The letters are collected and collated with explanatory biographical material and ample footnotes, photographs and examples of Fairweather’s art as it developed over the course of his lifetime.
As a young officer in the British Army during the Great War he spent some 4 years as a prisoner of war. It’s interesting to ponder what, if any, impact that experience had on his preference to live in austerity for the rest of his life. With interests in both painting and Asia (and specifically China) he spent the interwar years as an impoverished - if not at times completely destitute - artist, living in Canada then China as well as spending time in Australia and other countries in Asia and the Pacific. After service in the Second World War he returned to Australia, but wanderlust kept him moving, until in his 60’s he returned to Bribie Island in Queensland where he lived out his life as an increasingly successful and famous artist, but still living a spartan life, detached from the mainstream. His growing fame and the development of his island home increasingly encroached on his simple life in a grass hut in the Australian bush.
In a way it seems curious that such a recluse from the mainstream corresponded so frequently over the course of his lifetime. An eccentric and acerbic personality comes through in the letters. Whilst labelled 'a hermit’ Fairweather clearly valued and needed people in his life, but preferably at a distance, and on his own terms.
Highly Recommended (despite the slightly steep price!)
Ian Fairweather- A Life in Letters, edited by Claire Roberts & John Thompson, published by Text (cloth bound paper) purchased by the Reviewer from Readings, St Kilda, price $A 65.00.… (mais)
The book consists of an edited collection of 354 letters (out of some 700 tracked down to date) written by Fairweather over the course of his lifetime to family, friends and art world connections and both sides of the world. The letters are collected and collated with explanatory biographical material and ample footnotes, photographs and examples of Fairweather’s art as it developed over the course of his lifetime.
As a young officer in the British Army during the Great War he spent some 4 years as a prisoner of war. It’s interesting to ponder what, if any, impact that experience had on his preference to live in austerity for the rest of his life. With interests in both painting and Asia (and specifically China) he spent the interwar years as an impoverished - if not at times completely destitute - artist, living in Canada then China as well as spending time in Australia and other countries in Asia and the Pacific. After service in the Second World War he returned to Australia, but wanderlust kept him moving, until in his 60’s he returned to Bribie Island in Queensland where he lived out his life as an increasingly successful and famous artist, but still living a spartan life, detached from the mainstream. His growing fame and the development of his island home increasingly encroached on his simple life in a grass hut in the Australian bush.
In a way it seems curious that such a recluse from the mainstream corresponded so frequently over the course of his lifetime. An eccentric and acerbic personality comes through in the letters. Whilst labelled 'a hermit’ Fairweather clearly valued and needed people in his life, but preferably at a distance, and on his own terms.
Highly Recommended (despite the slightly steep price!)
Ian Fairweather- A Life in Letters, edited by Claire Roberts & John Thompson, published by Text (cloth bound paper) purchased by the Reviewer from Readings, St Kilda, price $A 65.00.… (mais)
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- Obras
- 12
- Membros
- 99
- Popularidade
- #191,538
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Resenhas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 18
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- 1