Donald Friend, 1915-1989

Donald Friend, 1915-1989
Author: Barry Pearce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1990
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2/9-3/25/90); National Gallery of Victoria (4/14-6/6/90); Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (6/26-8/19/90).

The Diaries of Donald Friend

The Diaries of Donald Friend
Author: Donald Friend
Publisher: National Library Australia
Total Pages: 744
Release: 2001
Genre: Artists
ISBN:

Donald Friend's legendary years in Bali in the 1960s and 1970s and his subsequent final decade in Australia are revealed in detail in this fourth and final volume of The Diaries of Donald Friend. In Bali he lives luxuriously, like a lorda even keeping his own gamelan orchestraa and becomes an international celebrity artist. He welcomes guests such as Mick Jagger and the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, entertains numerous other visitors who want to buy his paintings and drawings, and socialises freely with friends, including many other artists. He engages in significant building activity and property development while also producing superb illustrated manuscripts and books. And despite increasing ill-health, Friend continues to revel in his life's drama and creativity, remaining an eloquent, often charming and sometimes irascible companion. Including over 60 drawings from his diaries, many of them in colour, this volume confirms Friend's quicksilver creative brilliance and extraordinary insight. He is perhaps Australia's most important twentieth-century diarist.

Illustrated Manuscripts and Diaries of Donald Friend

Illustrated Manuscripts and Diaries of Donald Friend
Author: Donald Friend
Publisher:
Total Pages: 66
Release: 1930
Genre: Art, Australian
ISBN:

MS 5959 comprises: 1. A handwritten manuscript titled "Birds from the magic mountain", with original illustrations in ink, watercolour and crayon, describing some of the factual and fictional birds of Indonesia. 2. An illustrated, handwritten manuscript titled "Ayam-ayam kesayangan", vol. 3, containing many and varied writings and paintings of his native land on his return from many years' sojourn in distant countries beyond the sea, also known as "The return of the prodigal". 3. Manuscript diaries from 1930 to 1988. These include two diaries titled Disastres de la Guerra for July 1943 (vol. 9) and January 1944 (vol. 14), both illustrated with pen and ink wash. 4. Two notebooks, 1939 (7 folders, 48 v., 6 oversize volumes).

The Genius of Donald Friend

The Genius of Donald Friend
Author: Donald Friend
Publisher: National Library Australia
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Brings to the public for the first time a representative selection of the extraordinary drawings from the Donald Friend diaries held in the National Library of Australia. Witty, moving and evocative, they chronicle the brilliance of one of Australia's finest draughtsmen.

Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano
Author: Cameron Forbes
Publisher: Black Inc.
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007-07-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 192187001X

Under the Volcano is dramatic history written by a master storyteller. Travellers come to Bali looking for paradise. Nehru called it “the morning of the world”. Yet this small island has seen much bloodshed - from the ritual suicides of Balinese warriors fighting the Dutch, to the massacres of 1965-66 and the bombings of 2002 and 2005. In Under the Volcano, Cameron Forbes looks at the blood and beauty of Bali through interviews, legends, reporting and history. He tells the stories of explorers, colonisers, surfers, artists, jihadists and drug-runners and above all of the Balinese themselves. In doing so he brings the island paradise into vibrant and disturbing focus.

Donald Friend

Donald Friend
Author: Robert Hughes
Publisher: Sydney : Edwards & Shaw
Total Pages: 119
Release: 1965
Genre: Art, Australian
ISBN:

Who'S Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History

Who'S Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History
Author: Robert Aldrich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2020-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000100758

First published in 2004. With subjects drawm from politics, the arts and popular culture, Who's Who in Contemporray Gay & Lesbian History, includes 500 entries from a large team of expert international contributors. The geographical scope takes in the whole of the Western world. Includes fascinating information about little-known figures as well as cult icons from World War II to the present day.