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Product Description
Darleen Bungey
Hardcover
Published 2014
This landmark biography by Darleen Bungey, the author of the celebrated biography of Arthur Boyd, graphically depicts the forces that drove John Olsen to become one of the country’s greatest artists. An exhilarating book, both trenchant and tender, it strips away the veneer of showmanship and fame to show the substance of a painter driven by a need to depict his country’s landscape as Australians had never seen it before.
Given access to his uncensored diaries and drawing on years of extensive interviews with both Olsen and those who have known him best, she explores his passionate life and follows his navigation through the friendships, rivalries and politics of the Australian art world. How did a shy, stuttering boy from Newcastle, neglected by his alcoholic father, come to paint the great mural Salute to Five Bells at the Sydney Opera House?
This biography follows that journey — from Olsen’s early experiences in the bush, particularly a formative period at Yass (a time previously unrecorded), through years of cleaning jobs to pay his way through art school, to a milestone time spent in France and Spain — and traces his constant travels and relocations within Australia, including his epic journeys into the outback and to Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre.
From a child who was never taken to an art gallery, who learnt how to draw from comics, we come to see the famous artist in the black beret, the writer and poet, the engaging public speaker, the bon vivant — whose life has been defined by an absolute need to paint.
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Peter Kingston

Elisabeth Cummings monograph

Odd roads to be walking

Ann Thomson

A Painted Landscape

Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces

Intrepide

Margaret Preston

Far from a still life

Margaret Olley

Welcome to Country

Dark Emu

Cotton shopping bag

Cotton shopping bag

Cotton shopping bag

Portrait Painting Atelier

Paris to Monaro

Kathleen O'Connor in Paris

Paris in the 1920s

Nora Heysen: A Portrait

Nora Heysen: Light and Life
