Explores the unique visual language of one of Australia's most complex and challenging artists who quotes Jackson Pollock and Jean-Michel Basquiat in his work.
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Explores the unique visual language of one of Australia's most complex and challenging artists who quotes Jackson Pollock and Jean-Michel Basquiat in his work.
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New. Size: 11x9x0; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 135 p., ill., 29 cm. Gordon Bennett (1955-2014) was an Australian artist of Anglo-Celtic and Aboriginal descent. His bold and humane art challenged racial stereotypes and provoked critical reflection on Australia's official history and national identity. Bennett was one of Australia's most significant and critically engaged contemporary artists, addressing issues relating to the role of language and systems of thought in forging identity. He rejected racial stereotypes and freed himself from being categorized as an Indigenous artist by creating an ongoing pop art inspired alter ego, John Citizen, who he considered to be 'an abstraction of the Australian Mr. Average, the Australian Everyman'. In the late 1990s Bennett began a dialogue with the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a New York artist who shared with Bennett a similar western cultural tradition and an obsession with drawing, semiotics and visual language. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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New. 0724102906. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Corresponds to ISBN: 9780724102907. Text in English. 136 pp. With 97 col. Ills. 28 x 24 cm. --with a bonus offer--
