Ken Whisson by Quentin Sprague - ISBN: 9780522880090
Hardcover
Unwavering vision: Explore the singular life and art of Ken Whisson.
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Ken Whisson

Paintings and Drawings

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  • Hardcover

    527 pages

  • Release Date

    14 November 2023

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Summary

A richly illustrated study of Australian modernist painter Ken Whisson’s life and work.

Ken Whisson (1927-2022) was one of Australia’s foremost artists, widely acclaimed for an unwaveringly idiosyncratic practice that charted a singular course through seven decades of modern and contemporary Australian painting. Celebrated in his lifetime with the 2012 retrospective exhibition, Ken Whisson - As If, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Heide Museum of Modern Art, …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522880090
ISBN-10:0522880096
Author:Quentin Sprague
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:The Miegunyah Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:527
Release Date:14 November 2023
Weight:3.33kg
Dimensions:62mm x 253mm x 317mm
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Ken Whisson by Quentin Sprague - ISBN: 9780522880090
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About The Author

Quentin Sprague

Quentin Sprague is a writer based on Australia’s southeast coast, on Wadawurrung country. His essays and criticism have regularly appeared in The Monthly, as well as in The Australian, Art & Australia, and Discipline, and in artist monographs and exhibition catalogues published by The National Gallery of Victoria, The Monash University Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the University of Western Australia Press. He has worked variously as a curator, academic, art coordinator and artist. His first book, The Stranger Artist, won the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction.

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