Art
Articles
- Rosemary Dobson : The Influence of Art
Discusses Dobson’s so-called painting-poems.
1 May 1974 - Art as Reflection in Jessica Anderson’s Tirra Lirra by the River
Jessica Anderson's title is, at first sight, uninviting. Even the most ardent Tennyson reader must have secretly felt that Sir Lancelot could have found something…
1 May 1986 - Barbara Hanrahan’s Novels
It is a truism, in the world of Barbara Hanrahan's novels, that human beings are torn between opposing forces; the divided self is one of…
1 May 1983 - Interviewed by Martin Harrison
Martin Harrison interviews Peter Porter. Porter discusses his collected poems, his approach to writing poetry and the themes and inspiration of his poetry, among other…
1 October 1984 - Oodgeroo as Friend and Artist
I first came across Oodgeroo's writing in 1965. I was living in Nigeria at the time, where Australia hardly entered one's consciousness. The slim volume…
1 November 1994 - Last Flight to Byzantium: Memoirs of Many in One
The nature of art and reality and their relation to each other has always been a major preoccupation of artists and acquired a new intensity…
1 June 1991 - Australian Poems on European Paintings
Poems on paintings may not immediately strike one as an important genre in Australian literature, especially in comparison, for example, with poems on the Australian…
1 June 1991 - Nude Bathing Scenes as an Australian Pastoral Mode: Strategies and Tactics in Australian Art around the Turn of the Twentieth Century
My main concern in this essay is with a group of pictures of nude bathers painted by Tom Roberts, Charles Conder, Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin…
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Contributors
- Ulli Beier
- Robyn S. Heales
- Roslynn D. Haynes
- Martin Harrison
- Kerry Heckenberg
- Hena Maes-Jelinek
- Peter Porter
- Peter Porter
- Alrene Sykes
- Werner Senn