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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Main Author: Eagle, Mary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra ANU Press 2024
Edition:1
Subjects:
1960s art
American-based Abstraction
Artists-Australia-20th century
Australian art
Biography and non-fiction prose
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Biography: arts and entertainment
Biography: general
contemporary art
Dick Watkins
Individual artists, art monographs
Painters-Australia-20th century
Paintings and painting
The Arts
The Arts: art forms
The Arts: treatments and subjects
Watkins, Dick,-1937
ISBN:9781760466213, 1760466212, 1760466220, 9781760466220
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Summary: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, he announced that he was a copyist, there being no such thing as a new creation in art, shaped as it was by visual languages. Nor did he intend to limit his curiosity about the relation of art to life by restricting himself to a ‘personal’ style. There followed a long and passionately adventurous exploration into many subjects and styles, during which Watkins was often the first to signal changes taking place in Western culture. The result is that for half a century he has been a major, if controversial figure in Australian art.
ISBN:9781760466213
1760466212
1760466220
9781760466220
DOI:10.22459/DW.2024