Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s and 80s

McDonald, John

Verlag: Craftsman House, Sydney,, 1992

Beschreibung

Hardcover, quarto, 168pp., monochrome and colour illustrations. Foxing to preliminaries, spotting to upper text block edge, some rubbing to lower board edges around spine, light rubbing and marks to dustwrapper (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. To account for the haunting quality of his images, critics have described Jeffrey Smart as a surrealist, a hyperrealist, a commentator on modern alienation, or a maker of "Orwellian statements", then there must be something in his work which encourages these interpretations. By looking closely at the implications of two epithets which are often applied to Smart - his 'classicism' and his taste for 'the absurd' - one may hope to shed some new light on this wilfully mysterious artist. As a general rule, for almost every one of Smart's paintings, one might adapt Sartre's description of Camus's novel, The Outsider: "a classical work, an orderly work, composed about the absurd and against the absurd". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 54830

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s and 80s

Verlag: Craftsman House, Sydney,

Erscheinungsdatum: 1992