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The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his art by Gary Catalano

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September 2001, no. 234

The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his art by Gary Catalano

Miegunyah Press, $89.95 hb, 215 pp

The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his art by Gary Catalano

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September 2001, no. 234

This is one of the most satisfying and fascinating monographs on an Australian artist that I have read. Only Franz Philipp’s monograph on Arthur Boyd can be compared to it, and for quite other reasons. Catalano, lucidly and meticulously, unravels the complex physical and intellectual life of Rick Amor from the time of his boyhood. He discloses how Amor’s paintings depend on his ability to make his past the vehicle and inspiration of his creative achievements. It is a reflexive art embodying the omnipresent power of a memory touched with a redolent melancholy. His past is revealed as a strange presence that is not to be found in the work, in my experience, of any other Australian artist.

Bernard Smith reviews 'The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his art' by Gary Catalano

The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his art

by Gary Catalano

Miegunyah Press, $89.95 hb, 215 pp

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