Master of stillness : Jeffrey Smart : paintings 1940-2011
Pearce, Barry2013
Book
This book on the work of Jeffrey Smart is the first since his virtual retirement from painting in 2011. It illuminates the vision of the most celebrated of Australian expatriate artists, from his beginnings in Adelaide until his last major composition painted in Italy where he has lived for the last five decades. Adelaide, where Smart was born in 1921, was where his essential evolution as an artist took shape. His early fascination for its grid-like urban landscape was a perfect basis for an ongoing celebration of the phenomena of highways, traffic signs, trucks, transmitters and brutish modular architecture in post-war Europe; aspects of the modern world others found ugly but which he declared beautiful.
Main title:
Master of stillness : Jeffrey Smart : paintings 1940-2011 / Barry Pearce.
Author:
Imprint:
Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2013, c2012.
Collation:
136 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 30 cm.
Notes:
Accompanies on exhibition of the same name presented by the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 12 October to 14 December 2012 and Carrick Hill, Springfield, 10 October 2012 to end February 2013 in partnership with TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 21 December 2012 to 31 March 2013.First published: 2012.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781743051238
Dewey class:
759.994
Language:
English
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Subject:
BRN:
27698
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | -Art and Culture | ARTS 759.994 SMARFolio | On loan - Due: 12 Jul 2026 |
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Art and Culture | ARTS 759.994 SMAR | Available |