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Peter Booth : human | nature

by Jason Smith, Peter Booth, John Embling, Robert Lindsay

This publication traces a stylistic evolution from 1960s minimalist black fields to vivid figurative paintings in the 1970s. The work examines how these diverse approaches bridge the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Accession 5223 ISBN 0724102337 Publisher National Gallery of Victoria
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