Item #157159 Fred Williams: An Australian Vision. Irena Zdanowicz, Stephen Coppel.
Fred Williams: An Australian Vision
Fred Williams: An Australian Vision
Fred Williams: An Australian Vision
Fred Williams: An Australian Vision
Fred Williams: An Australian Vision

Fred Williams: An Australian Vision

London: The British Museum Press, 2003. Softcover. Color-illus. card wraps with cranberry lettering. French flaps. 128 pp. full of color and bw images. NF. Item #157159
ISBN: 9780714126395

Catalogue from the exhibition held in 2004 at the British Museum. "Fred Williams (1927-82) is a key figure in 20th century Australian art, renowned in his native country for his singular vision of the Australian landscape. Williams remains little known in Britain however, but a recent generous gift from the artist’s widow of seventy etchings and nine drawings and gouaches has enabled the British Museum to present his particular interpretation of the Australian landscape to a new audience. Printmaking is of central importance in Williams’s work, and no other Australian artist of comparable stature produced such a large and significant body of prints. From the beginning Williams’s practice as an etcher closely paralleled his development as a painter, and a striking feature of his work is the cross-fertilization of ideas and motifs between his painting and printmaking. After five years spent working and studying in London in the 1950s, where his subject-matter focused on the music hall, Williams returned to Australia in late 1956 and realized immediately that he wanted to concentrate on the Australian landscape. Within months his distinctive vision began to emerge. Etching played a primary role in the development of his understanding of the subject, imposing the need to simplify and render abstract the motif. Williams’s portrayal of the timeless and boundless Australian landscape through a discrete language of marks and new compositional formats profoundly transformed the way in which that landscape is viewed today."

OCLC: 52877416

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