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In Praise of Landscape
The Art of John Borrack
Lucy Grace Ellem (Author)
This magnificent book, authored by Lucy Ellem, outlines the life and career of a major
proponent of the art of watercolour. John Borrack is a significant Australian landscape
artist who has travelled the country recording its extraordinary land forms. The more than
270 pages are fully colour illustrated with hundreds of reproductions. John Borrack, born
in 1933 and a renowned Australian landscape painter whose career spans more than 50
years, continues to paint full-time in his studio north of Melbourne where the once rural
landscape of the Plenty Valley is being overtaken by suburban development. His landscapes,
mainly executed in water colour and lavishly reproduced in this book record the beauty of
this region and then extend to many remote areas of the continent – particularly in the north
– where extraordinary land formations range from the ‘picturesque’ to the ‘sublime’.
9781921394843, £65.00, Available Now
HB, 280p, full col throughout, Macmillan Art Publishing
Art – Modern Period
Vassilieff and His Art
Felicity St John Moore (Author)
Danila Vassilieff, a passionate, freedom-loving Cossack who burst upon the
Australian art scene in the mid-1930s is, in this book, posited as the missing
link in the story of 20th century painting in Australia. The author suggests that
the emotionalism and originality of his art, and his unconventional lifestyle, had
a leavening effect on the art of Nolan, Tucker, Hester, Percival, Blackman, and
Arthur Boyd, giving the artists courage to paint their original visions in a society
largely unready for them. Vassilieff’s immediate and imaginative response to
the Australian landscape deepened this impact. This critical survey of Vassilieff’s
painting and sculpture is richly illustrated and fully documented with catalogues of
his creative output in both areas. It also provides the moving story of a legendary
character who died poverty-stricken, in 1958, at the age of 60. His struggle to
prove himself as an individual and an artist has all the ingredients of a novel.
9781921394874, £45.00, Available Now
PB, 240p, Macmillan Art Publishing
Di Bresciani
Compositions in Colour
Di Bresciani (Author)
The paintings of Di Bresciani, artist and musician, are currently exhibited at
the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville to coincide with the renowned
Australian Festival of Chamber Music. Texts in this multiauthored, richly colour
illustrated publication focus on relationships between music and art and colour
and sound. The paintings reflect strong technical and personal development
towards an invidual style largely based on the exploration of colour and its
perception – whether it be in music or art.
Di Bresciani is well known in Australia and overseas as an artist, musician
and educator. Since the first solo exhibition of her paintings in 1995, she has
participated in many exhibitions in Australia as well as London, Paris and new
York. Her work is represented in more than 150 collections across Australia and
in the UK, France, USA, Germany and Japan.
9781921394959, £65.00, Available Now
HB, 175p, Macmillan Art Publishing
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