George Johnson, World View: Fifty Years of Abstract Painting

Author: Christopher Heathcote
Publisher: Macmillan Education/Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: years, abstract, painting, fifty, view, johnson, world, george
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-12-31
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1876832819
ISBN-13: 9781876832810

Book Description:

George Johnson arrived in Australia from New Zealand in 1952 and in 1956 held his first exhibition of abstract painting in Melbourne. This book marks the artist’s 80th birthday and fifty years of singular dedication to philosophy-based abstract imagery. Johnson’s work is uniquely consistent - rarely straying from compositions based on primary shapes and a limited range of colour preferences, but demonstrating how these minimal means can, in combination, serve as surrogates for complex ideas. Additional contributors to the next include the artist’s brother, renowned New Zealand poet, Louis Johnson; Australian poet and critic, Gary Catalano and Melbourne philosopher, Patrick Hutchings.


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