World View

Johnson, George (Introduction by Christopher Heathcote)

Published by Macmillan Art Publishing/Palgrave Macmillan/Macmillan Publishers Australia, South Yarra Vic., Australia,, 2006

About this Item

Quarto; hardcover; 256pp., with many full-colour illustrations. Mildly worn dustwrapper; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. 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 text 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: World View
• Publisher: Macmillan Art Publishing/Palgrave Macmillan/Macmillan Publishers Australia, South Yarra Vic., Australia,
• Publication Date: 2006