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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, ...
By the 1930s, modern style flourished in retail, entertainment, pubs, milk bars, modern swimming pools and fashion. Australia’s reception to modernism is a complex story of spasmodic cultural transformation led by avant-garde experiments and the cr...
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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Architecture via Butterpaper: Robert Hughes on the modernist movement: (website Butter Paper )On the occasion of the V&A s Modernism exhibition in 2006, Robert Hughes wrote this essay for the Guardian. Glass was the very opposite to heavy stone and opaque brick. Glass forms, crystalline and suggestive of weightlessness, seemed to be the stuff of...
Through Rose Seidler House, Harry Seidler abruptly and elegantly brought Modernism ëdown underí by winning the Sulman Architecture Prize in 1952. As 'the most talked about house in Sydney' Harryís parents faced a regular invasion of uninvited visitors wh...
SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY Hedda Gablerby Henrik Ibsen Adapted for the Sydney Theatre Companyby Andrew Upton Teacher's Resource Kit written and compiled by Jeffrey DawsonAugust 2004 N. B. This Resource Kit was written for the 2004 theatrical production of HED...
InformationRoland Wakelin (1887-1971) was born in New Zealand and studied at the RAS school in Sydney under Dattilo Rubbo from 1912 to 1914. Becoming a leading figure in the Sydney modernist movement, he held annual exhibitions from 1936 at the Macquarie...
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection established as the Lyndhurst Conservation Resource Centre 1984, renamed 2004 The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000 T 02 8239 2233F 02 8239 2433 E library@ hht. au Open Monday to Friday 9am 5pm The C...
The Trust was granted $13.8 million in the state budget to conserve the historic industrial buildings behind The Mint in Macquarie Street to house our Library and Conservation Resource Centre (which will be open for public use) and provide head office ac...
Elizabeth Bay House was built by the fashionable architect John Verge for the Colonial Secretary Alexander Macleay and his family. * SYDNEY/ NEW SOUTH WALES VISITORS* NORTHERN SYDNEY 38% WESTERN SYDNEY 20% RURAL NSW 16% INNER CITY 10% INNER WEST 6% EASTE...
Through Rose Seidler House, Harry Seidler abruptly and elegantly brought Modernism ëdown underí by winning the Sulman Architecture Prize in 1952. As 'the most talked about house in Sydney' Harryís parents faced a regular invasion of uninvited visitors wh...
InformationRoland Wakelin (1887-1971) was born in New Zealand and studied at the RAS school in Sydney under Dattilo Rubbo from 1912 to 1914. Becoming a leading figure in the Sydney modernist movement, he held annual exhibitions from 1936 at the Macquarie...
InformationRoland Wakelin (1887-1971) was born in New Zealand and studied at the RAS school in Sydney under Dattilo Rubbo from 1912 to 1914. Becoming a leading figure in the Sydney modernist movement, he held annual exhibitions from 1936 at the Macquarie...
WILMOT, FRANK LESLIE THOMPSON ('FURNLEY MAURICE') (1881-1942), poet, bookseller and publisher, was born on 6 April 1881 at Collingwood, Melbourne, second of five children of Henry William Wilmot (1855-1907), ironmonger, and his wife Elizabeth Mary, n~®e H...
A text summary and downloadable mp3 audion of the big stories on the agenda for the Ballarat and South West Victoria mornings program this week. Rick Carey with Johnno on Saturday Night Country. Brent Parlane with Johnno on Saturday Night Country....
ATYEO, SAMUEL LAURENCE (1910-1990), artist, designer and diplomat, was born on 6 January 1910 at Brunswick, Melbourne, son of Victorian-born parents Alfred Vincent Atyeo, chauffeur, and his wife Olivia Beatrice Victoria, n. Atyeo later replaced Ward as ma...
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