Author(s): Craig Judd; Bronwyn Clark-Coolee (Editor); Charis McKittrick Schwarz (Associate Editor)

Powerful Paradise the Art of George Schwarz and Charis is an artists book, a collaboration between George Schwarz and his partner Charis Linda Dement and Craig Judd. It is an introduction to a wonderful life and to beautiful, complex and intriguing art.

Ernest Georg Schwarz and Charis Elizabeth McKittrick enjoy a unique partnership beginning 1964. The word collaborators in this case is an inadequate descriptor. In their presence one is witness to but a force of nature, a swirling vortex of creative mutuality.

Simultaneously lovers, artists, apiarists, activists, authors, film and wine makers, Powerful Paradise is a celebration and a legacy.

This extremely limited hardcover edition is the first survey of the couple's life in art, the last survivors of bohemian Kings Cross. Creators of the first Australian hardcore sex films to be passed by the censors (and also refused classification), George and Charis were ahead of the curve in every aspect of their practice. This volume features the only writing covering their film output, extensive photographic work and global travels. Simultaneously erotic, taboo, progressive, liberated; lives dedicated to their work and one another and perhaps too provocative/evocative for the Australian art establishment.

$190.00 AUD

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