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John Landvogt

John Landvogt reviews 'The Artist & The River: Arthur Boyd and the Shoalhaven' by Sandra McGrath and 'Orienteering: Painting in the Landscape' edited by Heather Briggs

September 1983, no. 54 08 August 2022
In 1968, at the time of the Field Exhibition, Regionalism in painting was not a respectable concept. Not one painting in that exhibition related in any way to place. Internationalism was paramount. Now fifteen years later, even such localised phenomena as the highly stylised spray-can graffiti of the New York subways has infiltrated easel painting and the art galleries of that city, once the capit ... (read more)