Dick Watkins : reshaping art and life / Mary Eagle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eagle, Mary, 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists--Australia--20th century.

Artists.

Painters--Australia--20th century.

Painters.

Watkins, Dick, 1937-.

Watkins, Dick.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT : ANU Press, [2024]

Summary:

Dick Watkins belongs to the generation of artists whose careers were launched at the high-flying end of American-based Abstraction. Almost immediately he faced up to the abrupt end of the Modern era.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Birth of an artist: Sydney, 1937-1959, and London, 1959-1961

2. Sydney, 1961-1965

3. The movers and shakers: Watkins, the Contemporary Art Society, and Central Street Gallery, 1966-1968

4. 1968 and breaking away from the field

5. Pouring leads to Pollock, 1970-1971

6. Pollock, 1971-1973 and forever

7. A year in France, then on to Hong Kong: Embracing traditional landscape and dipping into Picasso, 1975-1976

8. Hong Kong, Italy, and 'Plan B': 1977-1978

9. Hate-love for image, 1980-1983

10. A line of great works beyond Picasso: 1984 onwards

11. Landscape as a cultural analogue? 1984, 1993-2006

12. The media as subject and style: 1988-2009

13. Texts by Dick Watkins

14. The pendulum, 1989-2000

15. 'The result of intense mental collectedness and concentration': 2005-2020

Conclusion

Chronology

Select bibliography

Index of works

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781760466220

1760466220

OCLC:

1425216163