Images and Insights The Art of Anne Marie Graham
Joan Ackland
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Anne Marie Graham's art is a celebration of life. Her images, created during a career spanning more than six decades and brilliantly documented in this book, are beautiful records of the natural world and sympathetic depictions of her fellow human beings. Her insights are penetrating and affectionate but always distinctly her own.
In Images and Insights, author, Joan Ackland, has produced a rich and lively narrative of the artist's life's work from her sensitive, often witty, depictions of the urban and suburban scene to the more recent pure landscapes. These are as diverse as lush tropical rainforests, the historic Melbourne Botanic Gardens and the arid inland of Australia. The optimism in her paintings is infectious. This beautiful book with its wonderful cast of characters embraces every generation, and underlines the artist's determination that life goes on in all its richness and possibility of renewal. Joan Ackland is a noted author in the fields of late medieval and early renaissance art and is a recognised editor and arts critic. Her poetry and short stories have been published widely in Australia and overseas. ISBN: 0 949 284 68.8 Five colour throughout $49.95 inc. GST |