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Arrivals And Sailings - The Making of George Wyllie (Hardcover)
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Arrivals And Sailings - The Making of George Wyllie (Hardcover)
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List price R757
Loot Price R373
Discovery Miles 3 730
You Save R384 (51%)
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The Making of George Wyllie has been co-written by his elder
daughter, Louise Wyllie, and arts journalist Jan Patience.
Containing never-beforeseen images and fresh insight into his
influences and early life, this book seeks to answer questions
about the forces which shaped Wyllie's unique worldview.The voyage
begins with Wyllie's Glasgow childhood - a period 'disadvantaged by
happiness' - and moves on to time spent serving in the Pacific with
the Royal Navy during WWII, where he witnessed first-hand the
devastation caused by the world's first atomic bomb being dropped
on Hiroshima. After the war, like Robert Burns and Adam Smith
before him, Wyllie became an Excisemen. He made 'time for art' in
his forties, going on to create memorable public art works such as
the life-sized Straw Locomotive, which hung from the Finnieston
Crane in Glasgow, and the giant seaworthy Paper Boat, with the
letters QM (Question Mark) on her side.By the time of his death at
the age of ninety in 2012, this idiosyncratic self-taught artist
had laid out his vision of himself as the artist-shaman, arrow in
hand, making a last Cosmic Voyage.
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