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last laugh: angry down under birds
Seven decades after its composition, no one is quite sure. For it is part of a celebrated hoax that fooled the critics and set modern poetics askew….How Ern Malley got the last laugh…. The intemperate torch grazed With fire the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Angry Penguins magazine, Brian Elliott critic, Corporal Harold Stewart, Ern Malley poetry, Ethel Malley, Harry Roskolenko, Lieutenant James McAuley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Harris Angry Penguin, Poetry hoaxes, sidney nolan art, Sidney Nolan Australia, Sidney Nolan paintings
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color and the language of second nature
The power of color. Is color more a presence than a sign, a force, ” the most sacred element of all visible things.” Is color primary and not secondary to form? Is color fundamentally involved in the making of culture … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Goethe, John Ruskin, John Verelst, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Proust, Paul Kane, Philip Roth, Philip Whalen, Primo Levi, sidney nolan art, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs
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touching a flaming comet
The disordering of the senses. A somewhat romantic and irrational project it was, to glorify the romantic’s seemingly narcissistic obsession with the process of creativity, an earnest concern to find the secret of creativity, like a holy grail, or a … Continue reading
gallipoli
Though most known for the Ned Kelly series of paintings, Sidney Nolan’s Gallipoli paintings are among his best work. Again, its an Australian theme and the myth is very strong since it represented recent history. Every boy who grew up … Continue reading
crisis of a strong man in chaos
Out of the themes of drought and disaster, the arrogant bravery of an outlaw, and the heroism of his countrymen at Gallipoli, Australian painter Sidney Nolan created a mythology for his native land. Before, Nolan, there had been no great … Continue reading
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