Sidney Nolan : search for paradise

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Melbourne : Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2022. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards (top-right corners of both upper and lower boards lightly bumped), pp. 204, illustrated. Out of print and scarce. Very good copy. This exhibition and publication was developed in celebration of Heide Museum of Modern Art s fortieth anniversary to pay tribute to a central figure in the history of the museum and the lives of its founders, John and Sunday Reed. For Nolan Heide was a garden of Eden that he later saw as a season in hell. His creativity became fuelled by a life-long fascination with the elusive notion of paradise and the consequences of its loss. Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise thus examines one of the artist s deepest impulses and the journey of self-discovery it engendered.The project elucidates particular aspects of the theme, beginning with Nolan s nostalgia for St Kilda, his childhood heaven, his arcadian Heide years, and his revelations about the Australian landscape in the Wimmera in the early 1940s. It includes later representations of Australia and its mythic figures, including Ned Kelly, Eliza Fraser, and Burke and Wills, which embody similar ideas of the promised land and escape, exile and futility. Paintings of travels to alluring locations from the mid 1950s and beyond further document Nolan s realisation that nothing is fixed- everything keeps being transformed-and you have to sense where Paradise is in the process . Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise acknowledges Nola

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