Darkness & Light: The Art of William Robinson

A full colour book accompanying the first major retrospective of work by William Robinson, one of Australia’s most distinguished contemporary landscape painters. It features more than 80 paintings and works on paper drawn from private and public collections in Australia and New Zealand. Through essays by leading Australian curators and writers the book traces the important shifts in Robinson’s art over the past three decades.
Series of essays traces the changes in the artists work over 3 decades. From landscapes and seascapes, Archibald Prize winning self-portraits, lush rainforest paintings and more Robinson has become one of Australia’s leading contemporary landscape artists. This monograph, for the first time in one volume, shows many of the key ideas and issues that have shaped Robinson’s work, and its reception by critics. His work is discussed in the context of Australian landscape painting and as a radical personal medium for metaphysical expression. Contributors include Michael Brand, Hannah Fink, Victoria Hammond, Deborah Hart, John Murphy and Lynne Seear. It also includes previously unpublished photographs of the artist and the landscape by prominent Queensland photographer, Richard Stringer.
159 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 31 cm. #160222