Description |
168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
Contents |
Includes index |
Summary |
Each of MacFarlane's canvases holds a self-contained design: a woman, or a man, or both together, at a moment in life when the dreams and desires of erotic love have sharply conflicted with reality. Each canvas thus highlights a typical problem of modern sexual relations. But assessed as a group, these pictures go even further, for they span the entire socio-psychology of contemporary life |
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Still in full development and likely to become one of the most typical representatives of Australian figurative painting, Stewart MacFarlane is a notable contributor to the creation of an Australian identity. Dramatic, colourful, and sometimes shocking, MacFarlane's paintings uncover the intense human dramas that run beneath the civilized order of society. In a framework of stark realism - a realism where recognizable Australian cityscapes, superbly evoked, sum up all Western urban life - the artist suddenly lets loose a surreality of human gesture and emotion, a cryptic enactment that seizes the viewer with its potency |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 160) and index |
Subject |
MacFarlane, Stewart, 1953-
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Figurative painting, Australian.
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Man-woman relationships in art.
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Painters -- Australia -- Biography.
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Painting, Australian -- 20th century.
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Painting, Australian.
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Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Australia.
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Sex in art.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Author |
MacFarlane, Stewart, 1953-
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LC no. |
96163137 |
ISBN |
9766410542 |
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