Author: Francis, Ivor
Title: Goodbye to the City of Dreams: An Autobiography
Description: Adelaide, Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2004. Softcover. glossy, red & pictorial wrappers w/ printed french-flaps. 296 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. "Ivor Francis made a vital contributionto the visual arts in south Australia, as an art educator and art critic, but above all as a practising artist. He never lost his passion for painting with an active career spanning sixty years. This is his story. Francis migrated from England to South Australia in 1924 full of hopes and dreams. He describes his transformation: 'visualise a sedate, gently-reared, rather priggish middle-class, seventeen-year-old, bowler-hatted Londoner, replete with kid gloves, walking stick and form-fitting Saville-row-styled overcoat, transformed into a roughly garbed 'Cocky boy' on the wild west coast of South Australia.. the loneliest, dreariest and most deserted place in the whole world'. His fascinating journey from farm-hand to pioneer of modernism makes this autobiography a valuable insight into the South Australian school education system and a history of Adelaide's cultural life over the course of the twentieth century."--inside front cover. VG. light rubbing to cover corners. light instances of foxing to pgs edges. pgs clean & bright. tight binding.

Keywords: Ivor Francis; Australian Artists ; Ivor Franics, Australian Artists ; ;