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Transforming Landscape, R. Hook

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This exegesis has two main objectives, one to elucidate the paintings and prints, grouped into a relatively coherent body of work under the general title Coastal Architecture, and the other to establish a theoretical foundation and context for both the artistic production and the critical reception of the work. Two notoriously difficult and complex ideas - landscape and abstraction - are brought together in the studio work and then dismantled and examined in the writing. In the progressive exploration of different aspects of these two key terms a number of questions arise. For example, what is the relation of visual …