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Salvatore Zofrea

Robert Juniper by Philippa O'Brien & Salvatore Zofrea by Ted Snell

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December 1992, no. 147
Traudi Allen reviews 'Robert Juniper' by Philippa O'Brien and 'Salvatore Zofrea: Images from the Psalms' by Ted Snell

Craftsman House has contributed substantially to bringing our art map up-to-date with the simultaneous publication of a West Australian and a New South Wales art history. One on the work of Robert Juniper and the other on that of Salvatore Zofrea make interesting comparison. The first presents the style· of art one might expect to ensue from that great Western expanse of desert while the other challenges such expectations as stereotyped and clichéd. Juniper set out to depict the landscape and to heroicise it, as has been our tradition; Zofrea, according to Snell, incorporates Australia in the international tradition of art history.

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Out of Frame

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September 1992, no. 144

It used to be the case that readers interested in the visual arts in Australia had to put up with long dry spells between the publication of art books. But, over the last three decades in particular, writing about the visual arts in Australia, in terms of its scholarly and especially in terms of its numerical strength, has undertaken a quiet revolution.

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