The Art of Roger Kemp: A quest for enlightenment
Macmillan Art Publishing, $99 hb, 271 pp
Enigmatic Kemp
by Sarah Scott •
Christopher Heathcote’s scholarly study of the abstract artist Roger Kemp (1908–87) took more than a decade to complete. Heathcote’s examination of this Melbourne-based painter provides a refreshingly different view of Melbourne’s art scene from the 1930s to the 1980s and opens up new vistas beyond the much-studied Angry Penguin circle.
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The Art of Roger Kemp: A quest for enlightenment
by Christopher Heathcote
Macmillan Art Publishing, $99 hb, 271 pp
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