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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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Tagged Arthur Boyd art, Dave Dallwitz, David Brooks author, Ern Malley poetry, Ern Malley poetry hoax, James Dickey author, James McAauley Quadrant, James McAuley Australia, John De Burgh Perceval, John Perceval art Australia, Joy Hester Angry Penguins, karl shapiro, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Harris Angry Penguins, Max Harris Australia, Michael Heyward author, Ned Kelly Australia, sidney nolan, sunday reed
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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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Tagged Albert Tucker paintings, Arthur Boyd art, Corporal Harold Stewart, Ern Malley poetry, James Dickey author, John Betjeman, John Perceval art Australia, Joy Hester Angry Penguins, karl shapiro, Lieutenant James McAuley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Harris Angry Penguins, Max Harris Australia, Michael Heyward author, sidney nolan, sunday reed
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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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Tagged Albert Tucker paintings, Corporal Harold Stewart, David Brooks author, Ern Malley poetry, Herbert Read critic, James Macpherson, John De Burgh Perceval, John Perceval art Australia, Joy Hester Angry Penguins, Lieutenant James McAuley, Max Harris Angry Penguins, Max Harris Mary Martin bookshops, Michael Heyward author, Samuel Johnson, sidney nolan, sunday reed
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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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Tagged Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd, Catherine Caris, Corporal Harold Stewart, David Brooks author, Dylan Thomas, Ern Malley poetry, Henry Treece, John De Burgh Perceval, John Perceval art Australia, Joy Hester Angry Penguins, Lieutenant James McAuley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Harris Angry Penguins, Max Harris Mary Martin bookshops, Reed, sidney nolan, Sidney Nolan paintings, sunday reed
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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