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What Artists See: Essays
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Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9781923192379
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Published: Nov 1 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.31 Depth: 5.41
Language: English
A luminous collection of essays on art, obsession and creativity from one of Australia's best critics
Why do we revere the figure of the artist? Is the drive to create an innate human instinct or a form of compulsion? Is the provocateur more lauded than the realist? Why do artists do what they do, day after day, in a display of discipline and will?
The twelve essays in this collection offer glimpses into the lives of some of Australia's best contemporary artists, exploring the impetus for creativity and the role of art in making meaning. Tied together by an enduring curiosity for how artists practice - what motivates them, what confounds them and what compels them to keep creating - these pieces span the islands of Carpentaria to suburban Perth, the streets of Malaysia to the deserts of the Northern Territory. What emerges is art as an act of wilful vision - of alternative ways of seeing that illuminate the otherwise invisible.ï 1/2
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