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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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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. ...

Australian slang - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

In The Mind Of The Architect: Episode 3 - Corrugated Dreams   (website(s) ...in the mind of the Architect    Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

Timothy Hill, architect: The potential of architecture is simply to enable things to happen. What gives an architect the confidence to produce a great Australian building? Karl Fender, architect: I think good architecture stimulates people, itís an archi...

Vassilieff, Danila Ivanovich (Daniel) (1897 - 1958) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (website Australian Dictionary of Biography )

VASSILIEFF, DANILA (DANIEL) IVANOVICH (1897-1958), painter and sculptor, was born on 16 December 1897 at Kagalnitskaya, near Rostov-na-Donu, Russia, son of Ivan Ivanovich Vassilieff and his wife Eudoxia, n. Welcomed into the city's artistic circles, parti...

Good Reading Magazine :: Books   (website Good Reading Magazine )

Yet alongside this innocent evocation of childhood bliss, another aspect of the household is delicately and unmistakably laid bare as Mansfield exposes the true nature of the family. A key figure in the Modernist movement, Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)...

Nineteenth Asialink Lecture, Asialink, University of Melbourne   (website Asialink Centre )

Now, as we begin this new century, we suddenly have a truly globalised world, one that crosses national boundaries and has generated a global economy - and its dialectic - global terrorism. One of the primary reasons for global governance - that is for a ...

Nineteenth Asialink Lecture, Asialink, University of Melbourne   (website Asialink Centre )

Now, as we begin this new century, we suddenly have a truly globalised world, one that crosses national boundaries and has generated a global economy - and its dialectic - global terrorism. One of the primary reasons for global governance - that is for a ...

Jay Parini on Why Poetry Matters - RN Book Show - 20-January-2009 -   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

In his new book Why Poetry Matters Jay Parini investigates why the status of poetry has fallen and how to prop it up. Ramona Koval: Last time Jay Parini was on The Book Show. Ramona Koval: You've just published this book from Yale University Press called...

Rose Seidler House   (website Tourism New South Wales )

<br/>Rose Seidler House<br/>71 Clissold Road <br/>Wahroonga, NSW 2076<br/>Telephone: 02 - 9989 8020<br/>Fax: 02 - 9487 2761<br/> Email: info@hht.net.au<br/> Website: www.hht.net.au/museums/rose_seidler_ho<br/>use<br/><br/><br/>Built between 1948 and 1950,...

Heritage Branch Website - Listing Heritage Items - State Heritage Register - Item View   (website New South Wales Government Heritage Office )

Simpson-Lee House I Wahroonga is likely to be of State significance as an excellent and intact example of the work of early modernist architect Arthur Baldwinson. The Simpson-Lee house represents an excellent example of Baldwinson's architecture and is l...

Modern times: the untold story of modernism in Australia, 21 March - 12 July 2009   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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Grace Cossington Smith (1892 - 1984) - Lauraine Diggins Fine Art - Australian fine art and photography collection, artwork restoration, conservation and valuation   (website Lauraine Diggins Fine Art )

In her paintings Grace Cossington Smith acheived a vibrancy of both composition and colour unpararlleled in the Australian modernist movement. On her return to Australia from overseas, she moved to her family home Cossington in Turramurra, a northern sub...

ausculture newsletter August 2006 - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Touring to: Orange Regional Gallery, 30 June - 6 August; Queensland University Mayne Centre, Brisbane, 12 August - 1 October; Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, 13 October - 20 November. Select a categoryArchitecture and Design Archives and Libraries Buil...

The Angry Penguins   (website Culture Portal )

'The Angry Penguins' was a modernist literary and artistic movement that sought to shake up the entrenched art establishment of Australia in the 1940s. Centred around poet Max Harris, the movement took their name from an art and literary magazine first p...