Joy Hester

Janine Burke

Joy Hester
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House Australia
Country
Australia
Published
7 December 2001
Pages
327
ISBN
9781740511339

Joy Hester

Janine Burke

A vivid and fascinating biography of artist Joy Hester, whose recent retrospective exhibitions have received wide critical and public acclaim

A highly talented artist in her own right, Joy Hester’s fame also derives from her marriage to Albert Tucker and her close friendship with John and Sunday Reed, arguably Australia’s most influential art patrons. Dead at the age of forty, Joy Hester’s life was intense and controversial. At a time when women were supposed to be modest and unassuming, Joy was larger than life- sexual, raw, earthy. Her relationship with Tucker was fraught and difficult -and ultimately unsustainable. This book also portrays Australia’s rich and vibrant artistic community, including Nolan, Vassilieff, Perceval and Boyd.

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