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The Art of Grahame King

The Art of Grahame King

by Sasha GrishinR. Butler Libby Bright and others
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/04/2014

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Grahame King's life as an artist began with his mastery of the new art of colour reproduction as a photolithographic colour etcher in Melbourne in the 1930s. At the same time, study at the National Gallery Art School with George Bell assisted his development as a painter. After war service and travels abroad, King returned to Melbourne with his wife, the sculptor Inge King. The two held a number of joint exhibitions of paintings and sculptures in Australia throughout the 1950s and then, from c.1962 Grahame King turned his attention, increasingly, towards the art of lithography becoming a master in this field of printmaking. He has also devoted himself to promoting the art of lithography and printmaking generally through the Print Council of Australia. He is often called Australia's patron saint of printmaking. The book examines his seven decades working as an artist in Melbourne and is lavishly illustrated with colour reproductions throughout.
ISBN:
9781876832599
9781876832599
Category:
The arts: general issues
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-04-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Macmillan Art Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
160
Dimensions (mm):
255x348x20mm
Weight:
1.62kg
Sasha Grishin

Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, who works internationally as an art historian, art critic and curator. He studied at the universities of Melbourne, Moscow, London and Oxford and has served several terms as visiting scholar at Harvard University.

In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, in 2005 he was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) for services to Australian art and art history and in 2008 was awarded a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. He has published over thirty books and over two thousand articles and catalogue essays dealing with various aspects of art.

In 2013 his massive Australian Art: A History wa published by Melbourne University Publishing, in 2015 appeared his monographs on John Wolseley (Thames and Hudson), Inge King (Macmillan) and S. T. Gill (National Library of Australia) and in 2022 his books on Erwin Fabian, Murray Walker and Joyce Evans.

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