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wallabee hoax: the down under side of the ecliptic

Australia. 1944. (see link at end)…The fact that Malley really didn’t exist has only increased his fascination in the Post-Modern era. It’s some time since Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, insisting that all texts should be seen … Continue reading

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ern malley:empty concoctions?

(see link at end)…It wasn’t long between the publication of the Ern Malley poems in the Autumn 1944 issue of Angry Penguins, and the revelation in the Adelaide and Sydney newspapers that they had been dashed off as a joke … Continue reading

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ern malley: hoaxing the last laugh

Australia. 1944. Were their poems worthless, masterpieces or elaborate put-ons? Almost seventy years after their composition, no one is really that sure. For it is part of a celebrated hoax that fooled the critics and set modern poetics askew. “Deliberately … Continue reading

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poetic hoax: because mal in french means bad

(see link at end)…In a single rollicking afternoon McAuley and Stewart cooked up the collected works of Ernest Lalor Malley. Imitating the modern poets they most despised (‘not Max Harris in particular, but the whole literary fashion as we knew … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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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