Rainforest Charles Blackman text by Al Alvarez the site of architectural production

the site of architectural production literally moved from the street into photographs

For in picturing themselves artists reveal something far deeper than their own physical looks: the truth about how they hope to be viewed by the world

and the Vorticists

Rachel Cusk

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Rainforest Charles Blackman text by Al Alvarez the site of architectural productionAlvarez, Al (Charles Blackman, illus.) Rainforest Macmillan, Melbourne Vic., 1988 Hardcover . 'By nature, Blackman is a lyric artist who tends to work fast and to rely a great deal on his technical virtuosity. The rainforest paintings, however, are different. He told me he had painted them in one long burst, but only after a five year gestation period, and each had taken him weeks, not days, to complete. Behind them is the same lyric impulse that