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Albert Tucker
114 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1969
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December 4, 2023
Edit: I can't find anything about the author. I think it's erroneously linked to another on Goodreads.
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"Among the most well-spent six bucks I've spent in my life!" Wow! This sentence doesn't make any sense!
I am not an artist and my knowledge is very limited, so these are the ramblings of a person who cheers hard for anything she loves. I got a (very) used copy and fixed it a little. I might probably laminate every page at some point because I have never owned a book that beautiful ❤️ If the hand mounted colored reproductions of Tucker's art took my breath away, I cannot imagine how I would feel seeing the paintings themselves!
The book offers a great summary of Tucker's life and art, his sociopolitical influences, the timeline of his works and the stages of his evolution, something you might need to squint hard down Google's rabbit hole to get bit and pieces here and there. His experience as an artist with the plastic surgery unit after his draft is so touching. The Australian landscape itself is inherently haunting in its beauty. The way Tucker represented the Australian landscape, lore and Western iconography is so captivating. It was also fun to understand the pilgrimages some artists made, even as recently as the twentieth century. I could help myself at part where an Italian artist introduced him to the PVA medium an laughed hard. We are such spoiled kids regarding finding knowledge!
The only negative note is that the book was published in 1969, way before Tucker's death. I hope I could find another resource to resume his artistic journey.
Last note: According to the books, the post 1960 phase of Tucker's art was the most criticized. It's actually my favorite, and if Google's search results mean anything, it seems it's favored by other laypeople as well.
Review Title:
"Among the most well-spent six bucks I've spent in my life!" Wow! This sentence doesn't make any sense!
I am not an artist and my knowledge is very limited, so these are the ramblings of a person who cheers hard for anything she loves. I got a (very) used copy and fixed it a little. I might probably laminate every page at some point because I have never owned a book that beautiful ❤️ If the hand mounted colored reproductions of Tucker's art took my breath away, I cannot imagine how I would feel seeing the paintings themselves!
The book offers a great summary of Tucker's life and art, his sociopolitical influences, the timeline of his works and the stages of his evolution, something you might need to squint hard down Google's rabbit hole to get bit and pieces here and there. His experience as an artist with the plastic surgery unit after his draft is so touching. The Australian landscape itself is inherently haunting in its beauty. The way Tucker represented the Australian landscape, lore and Western iconography is so captivating. It was also fun to understand the pilgrimages some artists made, even as recently as the twentieth century. I could help myself at part where an Italian artist introduced him to the PVA medium an laughed hard. We are such spoiled kids regarding finding knowledge!
The only negative note is that the book was published in 1969, way before Tucker's death. I hope I could find another resource to resume his artistic journey.
Last note: According to the books, the post 1960 phase of Tucker's art was the most criticized. It's actually my favorite, and if Google's search results mean anything, it seems it's favored by other laypeople as well.
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