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Angry Penguin painters - Australia's Culture PortalBarbara Tucker, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan, Hurstbridge, c. The Angry Penguin painters are considered to be the major figures of a modernist movement in Australian art, based in Melbourne, which has determined and shaped Australian conte...
Centred around poet Max Harris, the movement took their name from an art and literary magazine first published by Harris in 1940. The Angry Penguins, to quote Max Harris, expressed 'a noisy and aggressive revolutionary modernism' and represented the new l...
Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in-Curve, c.1930, ...
John Glover (1767-1849), Australian landscape with cattle: the artist's property Patterdale , c. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an2253188. The Heidelberg School was the first significant art movement in Australia. ...
Section of a glossary of Australian terms, 1936, Allan & Co. Image courtesy of National Library of Australia. Linguists and other cultural theorists value the study of Australian colloquialisms as a way of observing how the Australian character has develo...
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Ern Malley - the Official Website (more info)
Website devoted to the great literary hoax, the Ern Malley Affair, when conservative poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart submitted a fake poet to Angry Penguins editor Max Harris in an attempt to mock the Australian modernist movement. Visit for a hist
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High Court - National Gallery Precinct, Australian Capital Territory - National Heritage (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )The High Court - National Gallery Precinct is an integration of buildings, terraces, courts, paving, gardens and water features. The style promotes a monumental presence to the buildings within the High Court - National Gallery of Australia Precinct. The...
The New School for Collaborative Development held its first exhibition at PICA in 1993. The School's recent exhibition at The Verge was the result of a similar experience. As Philip McNamara indicated,"collaborative authorship" and "notions of developme...
On driving past the Verge Gallery the space appears to be empty - a pure white cube with nothing on the walls or the floor. The artists, Jane Finlay and Kate McMillan, describe their project as minimalist and that is certainly appropriate but minimalism ...
Concerning the Spiritual in Art, published by Kandisnky in 1911, outlined many of the principles which form the basis of Modern Art. Abstraction, Expressionism, Colour Field and non-figurative art, are therefore, not new but they are still effective in t...
More particularly, I want to look at the interdisciplinarities of psychoanalysis, modernism, and the two cultural disciplines of imperialism, anthropology and archaeology. Virginia Woolf's subtle and complex engagement with anthropology suggest both the ...
The editors of and contributors to Amy Lowell, American Modern seek to remedy this situation by instigating a serious critical conversation about Lowell and her work as well as by bringing many of her poems back into print through a companion volume, Sel...
DIMITRIS VARDOULAKIS Introduction Dimitris Vardoulakis 6 Figures of Commonality in Sophoclesí Antigone Carlo Salzani 8 Mourning the Public Body in Sophoclesí Antigone Jennifer R. Ballengee 31 A Danish Antigone Sabina Sestigiani 60 Ethical Consciousness i...
Andrew Milner and Jeffrey Browitt,Contemporary Cultural Theory. The third and most recent edition of Contemporary Cultural Theory, now a collaborative work of Andrew Milner and Jeffrey Browitt, sees also the revision of most of the text. In this sense a...
Furthermore, by undermining the grandiose pretensions of modernist icons like Jackson Pollock, Kesminas reinvigorates contemporary debates about perceptions of high and low cultural forms. The title of Kesminas's exhibition Never Mind the Pollocks is an o...
TeAdelaideFestivalhasstartedtoseemlikeanenfeebledelderlyrelativewhoseactivitiesarenowratheranembarrassment. TeBiennial spremise,thatweneedtore-examinetheroleofmodernisminwhatmanyassumetobeapostmodernage,didn tholdthepromiseofmuchjoy. TeBiennial scuratorLi...
This education pack supports teachers and art students viewing and researching the exhibition. The focus is selective and is designed to give students some idea of the central ideas, philosophies and styles which gave young Australian women artists the i...
The Art Gallery of South Australia has a responsibility to research and to help to tell the story of Australian art. In the area of landscape painting this is particularly true because for a variety of reasons many Australians strongly identify with the ...
People have a multi dimensional understanding of culture and place depending on heritage, personal experience, social structures, spiritual experience and awareness of contemporary community values. The Paper will explore ways that Cultural Planning can...
The heyday of English literature as an academic discipline is over. As worldwide enrolments show interest in English is losing ground to a wider spread of contemporary culture forms from advertising and the internet to cartoons and art movies -- what we ...
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