Dick Watkins Reshaping Art and Life
Dick Watkins belongs to the generation of artists whose careers were launched at the high-flying end of American-based Abstraction. Almost immediately he faced up to the abrupt end of the Modern era. Culture was no longer to be framed by 'progress'. In 1970, taking stock of the situation,...
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Canberra
ANU Press
2024
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- Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Birth of an artist: Sydney, 1937-1959, and London, 1959-1961 -- 2. Sydney, 1961-1965 -- 3. The movers and shakers: Watkins, the Contemporary Art Society, and Central Street Gallery, 1966-1968 -- 4. 1968 and breaking away from the field -- 5. Pouring leads to Pollock, 1970-1971 -- 6. Pollock, 1971-1973 and forever -- 7. A year in France, then on to Hong Kong: Embracing traditional landscape and dipping into Picasso, 1975-1976 -- 8. Hong Kong, Italy, and 'Plan B': 1977-1978 -- 9. Hate-love for image, 1980-1983 -- 10. A line of great works beyond Picasso: 1984 onwards -- 11. Landscape as a cultural analogue? 1984, 1993-2006 -- 12. The media as subject and style: 1988-2009 -- 13. Texts by Dick Watkins -- 14. The pendulum, 1989-2000 -- 15. 'The result of intense mental collectedness and concentration': 2005-2020 -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- Select bibliography -- Index of works -- Index