Title: Jon Cattapan :
Authors: McAuliffe, Chris.
Date: 2008
Publisher: Miegunyah Press,
Physical description: ix, 227 pages : chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: "Jon Cattapan: possible histories will trace Cattapan's art from his student days to the present. Beginning with the Dadaist grotesquerie and surrealist erotica of Melbourne's 1970s punk scene, it traces Cattapan's psychic themes of isolation and longing into later explorations of postmodern cities and global information flows. These culminate in the artist's efforts to reintroduce a political consciousness into his art. Using 'slow information' - the laborious task of painting - he makes painting a way of a thinking, processing and reinvesting ethical positions into art."--Provided by publisher.
Contents: 1. St. Kilda views -- 2. A yelling kind of art -- 3. Earplugs and blindfolds -- 4. A little bit of a crisis -- 5. Apocalypse now -- 6. Cities submerged -- 7. Information drift -- 8. Active citizenship -- 9. Possible histories -- Exhibitions and professional history -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Art, Australian.; Art, Modern--20th century.; Art, Modern--21st century.; Artists--Australia--Biography.; Cattapan, Jon, 1956-