Fairweather by Murray Bail (9789766410155)

Description - Fairweather by Murray Bail

Ian Fairweather (1891-1974) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important Australian artists of the 20th century. His work is interpreted here in a series of essays edited by Murray Bail. Give the current interest in all things "Asian", Fairweather's sojourns in China, the Philippines and Bali - the source of inspiration of some of his strongest works - take on new significance. His particular form of figurative abstraction owes much to his fascination with Chinese calligraphy, which he studied in Shanghai and Beijing during the 1930s. Joanna Capon follows in Fairweather's footsteps through China, and Pierre Ryckmans, a specialist in both Chinese painting and literature, applies an ethical model of traditional Chinese painting to explain the artist's obsession with the act of painting. Mary Eagle analyzes several of his most important works painted at his shack on Bribie Island off the coast of Queensland; Drusilla Modjeska dwells on the personal relevance of the mother and child subject, and Martin Armiger delights in the recurrence of musical references in his work.

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