Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly: The Ned Kelly Paintings in the National Gallery of Australia

Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly: The Ned Kelly Paintings in the National Gallery of Australia
ISBN-10
0642542015
ISBN-13
9780642542014
Category
Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General
Pages
78
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
National Gallery of Australia
Authors
Andrew Sayers, Sidney Nolan, Murray Bail

Description

"Sidney Nolan built a compelling narrative around the figure of Ned Kelly, the colourful and wronged anti-hero in his homemade armour, and the comic-opera police who pursue him through the vast and featureless Australian bush landscape. The mythologising of Ned Kelly did not start with Nolan's paintings, but his images remain the most enduring and instantly recognisable versions. With the stark black silhouette or Ned Kelly, Nolan found his powerful symbol and poetic metaphor for Australian's relationsip with their land. Nolan returned to the subject of Ned Kelly throughout his painting life but the later works never matched the freshness, immediacy and intensity of the first series. Nolan's unforgettable depictions of the Australian bush and the country's history and folklore have earned him a place in the Australian imagination unrivalled by any other painter." - book jacket.

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