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Eye wide open

Strange power of images
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August 2025, no. 478

What Artists See: Essays by Quentin Sprague

Monash University Publishing, $29.99 pb, 288 pp

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Eye wide open

Strange power of images
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August 2025, no. 478

I came to this book with a question: how will the author select the dozen or so artists upon whom he focuses? Of all the artists in Australia and beyond, why these few? One answer is pragmatic: What Artists See is based, in part, on previously published essays, several from The Monthly, others in exhibition catalogues. Sprague’s book might be understood, then, as an assemblage of previously dispersed parts, a drawing together of discrete pieces under one title. But it is also far more than this.

What Artists See: Essays

What Artists See: Essays

by Quentin Sprague

Monash University Publishing, $29.99 pb, 288 pp

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