Landmarks - The Landscape Paintings of Doris Lusk

Hazard Press, 1996.

This publication traces the development of the landscape paintings Doris Lusk (1916-1990), from her early explorations of Central Otago during the 1930s, to the imagined projects of the 1980s - representing the culmination of her artistic concerns.

Doris Lusk's career reveals a deep fascination with particular motifs, centering on industrial imagery in landscape settings. For more than five decades she consistently pursued this proccupation, using different techniques and employing different media. The manifold layers of meaning embedded in the buildings in her landscapes, and their role in projecting a certain mood, suggest her paintings may profit from being read as expressions of moods, metaphors and symbols.