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Petitjean, Georges und Akkie Groen: Paddy Bedford. Crossing Frontiers, Snoeck Publishers, Gent 2009, Ausst. Kat., ISBN 9789053497753

Table of Contents        ¦         Cover Text        ¦         Review⁄Abstract

Table of Contents

Works -7-

Georges Petitjean: Crossing Frontiers: Paddy Bedford in Europa -33-

Patrick Hutchings: Paddy Bedford: Law and Art -41-

Frances Kofod: Paddy Bedford and Kimberley History -49-

Marie Jeanne de Rooij: A Paddy Bedford Experience -67

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Cover Text

Paddy Bedford (c. 1922-2007) is one of the most important Australian Aboriginal artists. His paintings and gouaches are characterised by vivid brush strokes and powerful masses. His daring formal language evokes the rocks and other amporphous features of the Kimberley landscape. These bold images also reflect the artist's former rough life as a stockman. However, behind his compositions' subtle harmony lurks a learned and poetic knowledge of the land and its creation stories. Bedford's work transcends the levels of the local and the culturally determined in a surprising and convincing way. In 2006, Paddy Bedford's oeuvre was honoured with a grand retrospective in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. This boolk was published for the occasion of his first solo exhibition outside Australia, in the AAMU Museum of contemporary Aboriginal art in Utrecht, the Netherlands.