In early February Melbourne University Press is set to release, Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being by Hermina Burns. This will be available in limited print run, so we welcome preorders now.
Admired by those who knew her distinctive life, her agency in managing and promoting the legacy of Albert Tucker, Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being sheds new light on Barbara Tucker’s advocacy of Albert Tucker’s art, her gift for friendship, her love of the Australian bush and her spiritual impulse. It provides the reader with witness accounts of Barbara’s life lived alongside Albert Tucker, one of the greatest Australian artists of the twentieth century.
Told by myriad voices, this book creates a story of Barbara Tucker as more than ‘the artist’s wife’ and gives a fresh window, through snapshots and intimate memoirs, into the momentous times of twentieth-century Australian art. This book presents material which asks for a revaluation of the images of Barbara Tucker in the art and photography of Albert Tucker.
In the Australian art world, some of the most important agents and advocates of twentieth-century Australian modernist artist have been neglected, perhaps because they are women and wives such as Lyn Williams, Tess Baldessin, Judith Pugh, Helen Maudsely and Barbara Tucker. All were influential partners, managers of artist’s work, estate, and critical in securing the artist’s reputation. The French art world celebrates the great agents and advocates of Impressionism. Yet the Australian art world ignores some of our most important advocates, Barbara Tucker being one of them. In these intimate and moving accounts, you glimpse a woman whose actions influenced the culture of our nation.
Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being by Hermina Burns
Much more than a muse; Barbara Tucker was in fact a vital partner in the artistic success of her famed husband Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being presents a multifaceted view of Tucker and the life she made with her artist husband Albert. Inspired by accounts of family, friends and admirers attending her memorial, it contains speeches, essays, memoirs and a photo journal. Her nephew Darren Jones and niece Caitlin Graham-Jones give beautifully realised accounts; her godson, Justin O’Brien, rails against a world that seemed to ignore or misinterpret her life; her brother, Peter Bilcock, gives a moving eulogy. Judith Pugh’s tribute evokes a marvellously vivid woman and loyal ally; Jinx Nolan’s is filled with gratitude and gladness for Barbara’s presence. The collection contains contributions from Heide Museum of Modern Art and other institutions that benefited from her foresight and generosity. Tucker emerges not just as a woman bound by the role prescribed in her times, but as a complex person with a great gift for friendship, as well as an artist’s advocate, agent, defender and facilitator who should carry her own story, independently and unobscured, alongside the story of Albert Tucker and art in Australia.
For:
Educators – Secondary schooling, VET, and university.
Education policy makers.
Professional accrediting bodies.
Think tanks.
Parents.
Careers counsellors.
Employers, including recruiters, human resources, as well as managers.
Anyone interested in the future of work in Australia.
To celebrate, we are offering the below discounts on orders for orders made by 1 February 2024.
2+ copies: 15% off RRP
30+ copies: 25% off RRP
50+ copies: 30% off RRP
Delivery is free on orders of $50+
To pre-order, please email dominika.greinert@unimelb.edu.au:
Your full delivery details.
Number of copies you wish to order.
We will send you a pre-order invoice.
RRP $45
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In early February Melbourne University Press is set to release, Barbara Tucker: The Art of Being by Hermina Burns. This will be available in limited print run, so we welcome preorders now.
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