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For the artists and writers in this book - Claude Monet, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Karen Blixen, Ernest Hemingway, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Emily Kame Kngwarreye - the act of recreating Eden was a life-changing, art-making, healing rite that becomes both a map of their careers and an index of their subject matter. What unites these artists and writers is a journey of return, of rediscovery, that leads them to the creation of a personal paradise. Upon arriving at that place, whether it was Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico, Monet in Giverny or Picasso in Provence, iconic new work emerged, inspired by that terrain, from its light, its colours, its landscape. Each of these artists had recovered the place they'd been unconsciously seeking for years. In this engaging and ground-breaking book, Janine Burke explores how art and landscape, love and companionship, home and garden are entwined. Nature is culture, and its most insistent inspiration.

ISBN: 9781741758177
Classification: Places & peoples: pictorial works , Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc)
Format: Hardback (243mm x 165mm x mm)
Pages: 400
Publish Date: 1-Nov-2009
Country of Publication: Australia

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5 star rating by Boomert - Source by Janine Burke 06 Nov 2009
Accomplished art historian and author of the highly acclaimed Australian Gothic: A Life of Albert Tucker, Janine Burke, has created another masterpiece in Source, with her in-depth research, writing style and outstanding presentation. She has brought the understanding of art and artists, writers and writing closer, for a wider audience, with the exquisite analysis of selected subjects including Monet, O’Keeffe, Picasso, Hemingway, Woolf, Pollock, Blixen and Emily Kame Kngwarreye, among others. The essential role that place, nature, and the landscape play as a source of inspiration and creativity is Burke’s common thread, and the core of healing for all featured artists. These natural elements flow through each biography, transforming Burke’s lucid, lyrical language into visual reels and magnificent canvases. Windows are also opened onto the unconventional family units and private lives, loves, passions, infidelities and predilections of this group; what made them famous, and what destroyed them. It includes several full-page pictures of each subject. This outstanding book will attract those interested in any form of art, biography and travel, and the historical and social background of the midto- late 1800s through to the post WWII years.

Author Biography: Janine Burke
Janine Burke's novel Second Sight won the Victorian Premier's Award for fiction. Company of Images was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year award and the Miles Franklin Award. She has written a groundbreaking series of books on the Heide circle, including Australian Gothic: A Life of Albert Tucker, which was shortlisted for the 2002 Queensland Premier's Literary Award. The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection, shortlisted for the 2007 NSW Premier's award for non-fiction, is the acclaimed survey of Freud's personal collection.

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Source, Hardback (November 2009)

Deadly Doll, Hardback (August 2007)

Deadly Doll, Hardback (January 2007)

Gods of Freud, Hardback (October 2006)

Sphinx on the Table, Hardback (September 2006)

Heart Garden, Paperback (October 2005)

Heart Garden, the, Hardback (October 2004)

Australian Gothic, Paperback (July 2003)

Australian Gothic, Hardback (January 2003)

Joy Hester, Paperback (December 2001)

Our Lady of Apollo Bay, Hardback (September 2001)

Dear Sun, Paperback (June 2001)

Our Lady of Apollo Bay, Paperback (March 2001)

Doll, Paperback (August 1997)

Dear Sun, Paperback (April 1997)

Dear Sun: the Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed, Audio cassette (October 1996)

Dear Sun, Hardback (October 1995)

Journey to Bright Water, Paperback (June 1995)

Lullaby, Paperback (August 1994)

Journey to Bright Water, Paperback (May 1994)

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