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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Three Painters : Marquet, Bonnard, Beckmann
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Albert Marquet travelling widely in search of the ultimate harbour; Pierre Bonnard 'transcribing the adventures of the optic nerve'; Max Beckmann plunging into myth: these are the subjects of Watson's three manoeuvres. Picasso famously said that Bonnard's palette was a 'pot-pourri of indecision' and that he 'never used one colour when he could use many'. Watson's celebration of Bonnard takes this multiplicity as its starting point. In Bonnard 'the complexity of the visual field' becomes the complexity of narrative. This variegated sequence is flanked by a suite of poems accompanying Marquet's repeated travels through France, Europe and Egypt; and by a tour-de-force in which Watson skis down the snow peaks of Beckmann's world, negotiating a panoply of mermen, mermaids and demi-gods. ' (Publication summary)

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    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Puncher and Wattmann , 2014 .
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      Extent: 204p.
      Description: illus.
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      • Published: November 2014
      ISBN: 9781922186157

Works about this Work

Terms and Conditions Justin Clemens , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 1 2015; (p. 187-194)

— Review of Review : Axis Book One Desmond Cowley , 2015 single work review ; Three Painters : Marquet, Bonnard, Beckmann John Watson , 2014 selected work poetry
What I’m Reading Justin Clemens , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2015;
Terms and Conditions Justin Clemens , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 1 2015; (p. 187-194)

— Review of Review : Axis Book One Desmond Cowley , 2015 single work review ; Three Painters : Marquet, Bonnard, Beckmann John Watson , 2014 selected work poetry
What I’m Reading Justin Clemens , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2015;
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