Arthur Boyd: Agony and Ecstasy is a major exhibition of Boyd’s art including more than 100 works across diverse media: paintings, prints, drawings, ceramic tiles and sculptures, and tapestries. This publication provides the opportunity to contemplate a number of works that have never or rarely been previously exhibited, and to rediscover Boyd as you have never seen him before.
Contents
Foreword / Ron Radford
All in the family
The war years: Fear, love, sex and death
Agony and ecstasy in the garden
Brides until Nebuchadnezzar
Collaborations with poets and Caged Painter series
Summations (1970s) / Deborah Hart
Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan: Victims and heroes / Patrick McCaughey
Arthur Boyd: Reflected bride I / Kendrah Morgan
Ceramic tile paintings and sculptures / Grace Cochrane
Making prints in England 1962–72 / Roger Butler
The life of Saint Francis tapestry suite / Robert Bell
