Dick Watkins
Reshaping Art and Life
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Description
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. Culture was no longer to be framed by ‘progress’. In 1970, taking stock of the situation, he announced that he was a copyist, there being no such thing as a new creation in art, shaped as it was by visual languages. Nor did he intend to limit his curiosity about the relation of art to life by restricting himself to a ‘personal’ style. There followed a long and passionately adventurous exploration into many subjects and styles, during which Watkins was often the first to signal changes taking place in Western culture. The result is that for half a century he has been a major, if controversial figure in Australian art.
Format: Hardback
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9781760466213
- ISBN (online):
- 9781760466220
- Publication date:
- Sep 2024
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/DW.2024
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Art & Music
- Countries:
- Australia
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- Preliminary pages (PDF, 109 KB)
- Acknowledgements (PDF, 60 KB)
- Abbreviations (PDF, 44 KB)
- Introduction (PDF, 78 KB)
- Birth of an artist: Sydney, 1937–1959, and London, 1959–1961 (PDF, 13.7 MB) doi
- Sydney, 1961–1965 (PDF, 9 MB) doi
- The movers and shakers: Watkins, the Contemporary Art Society, and Central Street Gallery, 1966–1968 (PDF, 9 MB) doi
- 1968 and breaking away from the field (PDF, 10.9 MB) doi
- Pouring leads to Pollock, 1970–1971 (PDF, 12.7 MB) doi
- Pollock, 1971–1973 and forever (PDF, 18.9 MB) doi
- A year in France, then on to Hong Kong: Embracing traditional landscape and dipping into Picasso, 1975–1976 (PDF, 25 MB) doi
- Hong Kong, Italy, and ‘Plan B’: 1977–1978 (PDF, 7.4 MB) doi
- Hate–love for image, 1980–1983 (PDF, 19.8 MB) doi
- A line of great works beyond Picasso: 1984 onwards (PDF, 13 MB) doi
- Landscape as a cultural analogue? 1984, 1993–2006 (PDF, 11.2 MB) doi
- The media as subject and style: 1988–2009 (PDF, 20.8 MB) doi
- Texts by Dick Watkins (PDF, 656.9 KB) doi
- The pendulum, 1989–2000 (PDF, 12.7 MB) doi
- ‘The result of intense mental collectedness and concentration’: 2005–2020 (PDF, 17 MB) doi
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