Artists' Portraits
Portraits features discussions with twenty-six Australian artists, none of them living except in their work, talking about themselves and what they have drawn, painted, or sculpted. They speak for themselves as no one else can.
Catalog of an exhibition held Oct. 9-16, 1994 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., and June 21-Aug. 6, 1995 at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
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Summary by artist:
In the late 1800's scientist/inventors such as Marey and Muybridge developed a number of pre-cinematic devices to analyse motion. These technologies allowed people to observe time and space in a way beyond normal human capabilities, creating a heightened sense of awareness of our passage through time.
Links to artist's profile, images in exhibitions and catalogues. 2003 Figure/Ground (Zero) has an essay Camouflage by Ian Mclean. 2001 Notes to Basquiat: Modern art has an essay Conspiracy theory: Pollock, Basquiat, Bennett by Ian Mclean.
Link to 5 essays:
The restless cosmopolitan by Ian McLean, 2008. Who is John Citizen? by Ian McLean, 2006. Gordon Bennett's abstract art: the aesthetics of commitment and indifference by Ian McLean, 2004. Gordon Bennett's Notes to Basquiat. (911) by Greg Dimitriadis & Cameron McCarthy, 2002911 (with Apologies to Walter Benjamin), by Ian McLean, 2002.