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Michael Andrews ISBN: 9786000050986
Catalogue of Michael Andrews exhibition work at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery 28th May to 4th July 1986 with a foreword by William Feaver.
Exhibition catalogue. Paperback, Illustrated with b/w & coloured plates including fold out. Sized: 21 x 20 cm approx.
Gorgeous book.
It's 20 years since the artist's death in 1995 and his status as one of the great British artists of the 2nd half of the 20th century seems to have lagged behind those of his peers: Bacon, Freud, Auerbach, Hockney and Kossoff. And yet it shouldn't as there is such visual poetry in his output that once seen (preferably in the flesh but reproduction like this are no bad substitute) it is never forgotten. Maybe it is gentle but there is something good in that as a counterpoint to Bacon's awesome brutality, Auerbach's and Kossoff's frenetic intensity, Hockney's mercurial brilliance or Freud's overwhelming beauty. It has a subtle charm seldom seen in art or indeed in life these days.
Exhilarating.
This out of print Andrews catalogue is in good condition. Covers show some light edge wear & creasing. Light marking to the fore edges & prelims otherwise contents clean & complete.
Images © Estate of Michael Andrews. All Rights Reserved.
Trivia on Ayers Rock (Uluru) and Michael Andrews
The Cathedral is the flagship of the Ayers Rock series by Andrews.
The first white man to see Uluru was Ernest Giles in 1872.
The first to climb it was William Christie Gosse who, in 1873, named it after the Premier of South Australia, Sir Henry Ayers.
Michael Andrews arrived in the Uluru National Park, via Alice Springs, in October 1983. He checked into the Uluru Motel and spent ten days at the Rock and at Katatjuja, a group of lesser lumps twenty miles to the West, named the Olgas after a Russian Grand Duchess. Since his visit the motel has been pulled down.
The acrylic on canvasses from the Ayers Rock series and surronding areas are huge, up to 9ft each. By contrast, the watercolours, which were done on the spot, are roughly 15" x 10" inches each.
For the series, Andrews used handfuls of red sand he brought from the Rock to roughen surfaces. That fact alone, Ayers & Andrews, made the series to me almost sacred.
In 1963, a chain hand-rail was fixed to the slope of Uluru by the Uluru National park. Since then, 50,000 people a year have climbed to the summit. Bronze plaques on the base of the Rock commemorate those who died from falls or heart attacks. Andrews himself did the climb (and shared his painting-water at the cairn with two thirsty pilots). Once at the summit he did no drawing.
Every mark on the abrasive surface of the Rock, every blemish and fissure has aboriginal meaning. Uluru's scabs are signs of ancient rivalries.
Valley of the Winds was the third in the series by Andrews to be completed.
2020: 1 back in stock. 'Used - very good'.
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