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Author Heathcote, Christopher, 1959- author

Title A quest for enlightenment : the art of Roger Kemp / Christopher Heathcote
Published Melbourne : Macmillan, 2007
©2007

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Description 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Contents Youth -- Learning to paint -- Young artist -- Searching for direction -- Early maturity -- War years -- Artist's mission -- Symbolising the world -- Recognition -- Painter of his time -- Contemporary master -- Art and faith -- Broadening horizons -- Expatriate years -- Cycles and directions -- Path to understanding -- Back to base -- 1930s to early 1940s -- Late 1940s to early 1960s -- Late 1960s to 1970s -- 1980s -- Bibliography and exhibition details -- Selected bibliography -- Solo exhibtions -- Appendix
Summary The most publicly accessible art of the late Roger Kemp is perhaps the magnificent tapestries that hang in the great hall of the National Gallery of Victoria. This major figure of Australia's post war art world is the subject of Christopher Heathcote's latest book
Analysis Individual artists (Australia)
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 255) and index
Audience General
Tertiary/Undergraduate
Notes Geographic coverage: Australia
Subject Kemp, Roger, 1908-1987 -- Exhibition
Kemp, Roger, 1908-1987.
Etching -- Australia -- 20th century.
Painting -- Australia -- 20th century.
Painting, Abstract -- Australia.
Painting, Australian -- 20th century.
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Australia.
Painting, Modern -- 20th century.
Author Kemp, Roger, 1908-1987.
LC no. 2008360379
ISBN 9781876832438
Other Titles Art of Roger Kemp
Art of Roger Kemp