‘Charged with horror and anguish’: Arthur Boyd’s nightmarish Nebuchadnezzar series opens in major new Bundanon show

The Bundanon Art Museum has launched a major exhibition titled 'Man on Fire,' featuring Arthur Boyd’s Nebuchadnezzar series. These works, created in the late 1960s, reflect the artist's horror regarding the Vietnam War.
Arthur Boyd’s Nebuchadnezzar in a fire (circa 1969), oil on canvas. Photograph: Rob Little/Bundanon collection Arthur Boyd’s Nebuchadnezzar in a fire (circa 1969), oil on canvas. Photograph: Rob Little/Bundanon collection Arthur Boyd ‘Charged with horror and anguish’: Arthur Boyd’s nightmarish Nebuchadnezzar series opens in major new Bundanon show Not for the faint-hearted, this is the first large-scale presentation of the Australian artist’s anti-Vietnam war, hallucinatory works since the late 60s
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