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Modernism - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

The Angry Penguins

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...

Australian painters - Australia's Culture Portal

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. ...

Grace Cossington Smith - Australia's Culture Portal

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, ...

Margaret Preston - Australia's Culture Portal

Margaret Preston was an Australian painter and printmaker who was a leading example of early Australian modernism. Her essays and articles were published in Australian journals including Art in Australia , Undergrowth, Jindyworobak Review and Australia N...

Harry Seidler - Australia's Culture Portal

Harry Seidler (1923–2006) is an icon of Australian architecture. Dupain, Max (1911-1992), Australia Square, George Street, Sydney by architects Harry Seidler & Associates, October 1968. For more than 50 years, Seidler produced distinctive, bold mo...

Contemporary Australian Art - Australia's Culture Portal

Contemporary art is defined as art that is current, offering a fresh perspective and point of view, and often employing new techniques and new media. Image courtesy of the artist, Boutwell Draper Gallery and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Ken Unswor...

Hill End painters - Stories from Australia's Culture Portal

Russell Drysdale, Picture of Donald Friend, 1948. Hill End, a gold-rush town, 85km north of Bathurst in central New South Wales (NSW) is a sacred site in both NSW and also Australian art history. These artists include: John Olsen, Margaret Olley, Jeffre...

The changing face of modern Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Migration Museum, History Trust of South Australia. The hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in Australia after the First World War greatly influenced Australia becoming a modern society. Image courtesy of the Australian War ...

Modern Australian poetry - Australia's Culture Portal

Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language ...

Angry Penguin painters - Australia's Culture Portal

Barbara 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...

Australian architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

Internationally recognised Australian icons include buildings like the Sydney Opera House (architect Jørn Utzon) and the new Parliament House in Canberra (architect Romaldo Giurgola). Distinctive Australian architecture is also recognisable in the rural ...

Contemporary Australian artists - Australia's Culture Portal

Ah Xian, winner of 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award Triennial. Image courtesy of the artist and National Gallery of Victoria. The practice of current contemporary artists is supported by a solid foundation of established artist-run contemporary art ...

Art of the land in Western Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Works by many contemporary visual artists in Western Australia demonstrate a vital consciousness of the land. Western Australian art traces a presence on the land, a cultural loss and, ultimately, a belief in the future. Contemporary artists such as pai...

Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

There was also a significant English influence on Australian arts and crafts, especially in architecture and furniture, from the late 1800s. Established in the 1940s, the Sturt School in Mittagong, New South Wales, helped revive individual studio craft p...

The Australian Bush - Australia's Culture Portal

The bush has an iconic status in Australian life and features strongly in any debate about national identity, especially as expressed in Australian literature, painting, popular music, films and foods. The bush was revered as a source of national ideals b...

The state of craft in Western Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Craft practice shows us clear tangible evidence of cultural traditions as part of both the craft practice and also its context within Australian culture and design. Bevan Thompson, Norseman Salt Lakes, 2007, Stoneware, coil and throw method, Collection A...

Australian national dress - Australia's Culture Portal

While Australia has no single uniform national costume, an Australian national dress style, based on specific local dress styles, has emerged in response to climate, lifestyle and identity. An Australian style can be seen clearly in the main types of loc...

Max Dupain - Australia's Culture Portal

Dupain, Max (1911-1992), Sunbaker, 1937, photograph, 37.7 x 43.2cm. Image courtesy National Gallery of Australia. 2007, Dupain's Sydney Opera House, Exhibition Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney....

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Jacket 36 - Late 2008 - Patrick Pritchett: Writing the Disasters: Late Modernism and the Persistence of the Messianic in George Oppen and Michael Palmer   (website Jacket )

> Mary Oppen, George Oppen, Swathmore, 1979. In both Oppen and Palmer it presses to reclaim a modernism lost to disaster, whether by historical catastrophe, or through the failure of its own totalizing rhetoric. Ghosts seems central to formulating a th...