Arthur Boyd: A Life

By Darleen Bungey

Allen & Unwin

ISBN: 978-1741756135

Format: softcover

640 pages

RRP $39.95

When Arthur Boyd: A Life was released in hardcover in November 2007, it became the first book devoted exclusively to the artist, his life and his art. The most celebrated member of the Boyd artistic dynasty, in a lineage of gifted painters, potters, musicians and architects, Boyd’s unquenchable fascination with experimentation, of materials and modes of expression, lent him a relentless determination to not allow the trivialities and turbulences of everyday life to interfere with his creative ambitions. More than six years in research, Arthur Boyd: A Life sketches a social misfit whose gentle demeanour and eccentric relatives led him to be the brunt of schoolyard taunts. Completed as part of her doctorate, Darleen Bungey’s Arthur Boyd: A Life is an honest and moving portrait of an Australian art legend. It now appears for the first time in paperback. Joseph Brennan