A Tourist in Paradise Lost - The Art of Michael Illingworth

City Gallery Wellington, 2001. Good secondhand condition.

Michael Illingworth is one of New Zealand's great painters of myths. But rather than exploring the dark primordial landscape, he is a painter of daylight and the modern world. A British immigrant to New Zealand, he brought with him `a secret item in his luggage - his scorn for authority,' tempered by an engagingly subversive wit and a dazzling sense of satire. Illingworth's critiques of the contemporary bourgeoisie retain their sardonic power four decades after they were painted...