Book description

Victor Majzner arrived in Australia in 1959 as a Jewish refugee from Russia. His career as a painter accelerated during the 1980s when, as a migrant seeking identity, he began to travel inland and study the antiquity of the ancient continent as well as forming close bonds with several important Aboriginal artists from the Warmun Community in the Northern Territory.

His spectacular and unconventional paintings deal with issues of identity and, over recent years, with his developing sense of his Jewish heritage. Some paintings, more 'surreal' than his Australian landscapes, emerged from his late 1990s travels to the Negev Desert in Israel. [Publisher's website]

About the Author

Leigh Astbury is a Senior Lecturer and teaches Art history in the School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies at Monash University.

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