Robert Hunter

Résumé du livre

Robert Hunter was arguably Australia's pre-eminent Minimalist painter. In 1968, at age twenty-one, he was the youngest artist represented in The Field, the inaugural and now-legendary exhibition at the new National Gallery of Victoria, which announced the arrival of late modernist abstraction in the Australian context. Hunter was also one of very few Australian artists to participate in an international art movement, exhibiting in Eight Contemporary Artists at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1974, and continuing to be involved in significant exhibitions in Australia and internationally throughout his career. This comprehensive publication, which coincides with the fiftieth anniversaries of The Field and Hunter's first solo exhibition at Tolarno Galleries in 1968, surveys Hunter's unswerving commitment to a singular aesthetic position, evident in his earliest white-on-white paintings through to the mature works for which he is best known. Robert Hunter contains more than forty colour illustrations as well as insightful essays by Jane Devery, Tom Nicholson, Ann Stephen and Jennifer Winkworth.