Stewart Macfarlane: Riddles of Life - Hardcover
Still in full development and likely to become one of the most typical representatives of Australian figurative painting, Stewart MacFarlane is a notable contributor to the creation of an Australian identity. Dramatic, colourful, and sometimes shocking, MacFarlane's paintings uncover the intense human dramas that run beneath the civilized order of society. In a framework of stark realism - a realism where recognizable Australian cityscapes, superbly evoked, sum up all Western urban life - the artist suddenly lets loose a surreality of human gesture and emotion, a cryptic enactment that seizes the viewer with its potency.
Each of MacFarlane's canvases holds a self-contained design: a woman, or a man, or both together, at a moment in life when the dreams and desires of erotic love have sharply conflicted with reality. Each canvas thus highlights a typical problem of modern sexual relations. But assessed as a group, these pictures go even further, for they span the entire socio-psychology of contemporary life.
Each of MacFarlane's canvases holds a self-contained design: a woman, or a man, or both together, at a moment in life when the dreams and desires of erotic love have sharply conflicted with reality. Each canvas thus highlights a typical problem of modern sexual relations. But assessed as a group, these pictures go even further, for they span the entire socio-psychology of contemporary life.
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Veronique Helmridge-Marsillian lectured at Sydney University in the Department of Germanic Studies.
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- PublisherCraftsman House
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 9766410542
- ISBN 13 9789766410544
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages168
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1996, published by Craftsman House Australia, no additional printings listed. Hardcover in full blue cloth with DJ. Condition as new, square tight and crisp book, no markings of any kind, no names no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ very good, bright, slight edgewear and two closed tears at upper edge, not clipped. 4to, 168 pages, 55 color plates. Seller Inventory # 004561
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Stewart MacFarlane (illustrator). First Edition. Very good boards lightly rubbed to the corners and with minor marks to the endpapers but contents fine. Large ink inscription to title page, "To Christina Webster From Alex Remembering Santa Fe Stewart MacFarlane 26-4-96." This is accompanied by a small ink illustration. The dust jacket is scratched and heavily scuffed. It is bright with modest edgewear. Sent from our bookshop in the UK. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 168 pages; Signed by Illustrator. Seller Inventory # k5028
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