John Olsen. Drawing – the human touch

A$150 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

With an interview by Ken McGregor. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 352, extensively illustrated. Out of print, an as-new copy. This richly illustrated publication represents the author s attempt to locate as many of John Olsen s drawings as possible and Macmillan s determination to reproduce them in a book which will serve as a companion to our previous monographs on the artist s prints and paintings. Olsen is an artist who believes drawing to be the fundamental skill of artistic production and whose artworks, whether paintings, prints or drawings, indicate a keen sense of observation of human and animal behaviour translated into lively and sometimes humorous compositions dependent on the drawn line. He is a living legend on the Australian art scene, who claims: Drawing is important in every stage of an artist s career. Drawing is the plank on which you build the architecture of your work. Drawing is a transferable energy, a life-force, and it entails many ways of observing This book will inform and amuse as it reiterates the importance of drawing.

• Binding: Hardcover

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