Sidney nolan brief biography of benjamin moore

Was the Anglo-Australian cultural cringe solely a one way transmission from settler colony to metropole mothership? I have been re-examining the possibility that Australian creatives might have influenced British culture over the past century, especially since the Second World War.

In late December 1948, Sir Kenneth Clark visited Sydney. He had been invited to lecture on The Idea of a Great Gallery in Melbourne on January 27, 1949 by Sir Keith Murdoch, Chair of the Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria.

Murdoch had established the Herald Professorship of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne in 1946. The first incumbent of the Chair was Joseph Burke, who had been recommended bygd Sir Kenneth. Burke worked in Clark’s department of ‘home publicity’ in the British Ministry of Information in London during the war before becoming a very senior civil servant involved in negotiations with the Americans about atomic bomb development, including attending the

•

Nolan’s Covers

Abstract: During his lifetime, Sidney Nolan prepared artwork used on the covers of at least 80 books – this large number reflecting the importance of literature for Nolan.  This del av helhet does not examine the influence of literature on Nolan’s life and work in any detail, but rather gathers together in one location, illustrations of the many books for which Nolan either designed covers or which were designed using his works, commencing with his first cover in 1943 for Max Harris’ novella The Vegatative Eye.  Images of all covers are gathered under various category headings, followed by a chronological listing of titles.

Introduction Few Australian soldiers in the Second World War travelled with eight volumes of Kierkegaard in their kitbag, and few 1930s art students at the National Gallery School in Melbourne spent more time reading literature in the Public Library Reading Room next door than attending art classes.  Sidney Nolan qualifi

•

Riverbending in Excited Reverie: Nolan’s Parables of Sunlight

This tribute by David Rainey, creator of this website and editor of the centenary tribute to Sidney Nolan Imagining in Excited Reverie, is a work of the imagination. It takes the form of an imaginary text supposedly written by Sidney Nolan himself, and of course not found among his papers after his death on 28 November 1992. Whilst obviously a work of fiction as to the words used and some opinions held, it is nevertheless largely based on fact and on Nolan’s own statements.

 

It is posted on the 25th anniversary of his death.

 

A TRIBUTE BY DAVID RAINEY

 

Riverbending in Excited Reverie: Nolan’s Parables of Sunlight

 

I enjoybeing here by the Thames at Whitehall, even if we’re much further away from the river itself than at Putney and there is no chance to go fossicking in the mud at low tide!

 

Sidney Nolan on the Thames mudflats, Putney, c. 1964, photo