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 |
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Tertiary/Undergraduate |
Notes |
Geographic coverage: Australia |
Subject |
Kemp, Roger, 1908-1987 -- Exhibition
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Kemp, Roger, 1908-1987.
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Etching -- Australia -- 20th century.
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Painting -- Australia -- 20th century.
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Painting, Abstract -- Australia.
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Painting, Australian -- 20th century.
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Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Australia.
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Painting, Modern -- 20th century.
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Author |
Kemp, Roger, 1908-1987.
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LC no. |
2008360379 |
ISBN |
9781876832438 |
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