Author: Sidney Nolan
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Sidney Nolan (1917 1992) wove a compelling narrative around the figure of Ned Kelly as the 'wronged' anti-hero who forged his own homemade armour and was pursued by police through the often featureless Australian bush. Though the Kelly myth didn't start with Nolan's paintings, his images remain the most enduring and instantly recognisable evocations of the legend. Kelly's stark black silhouette gave Nolan his most powerful poetic metaphor for Australians' relationship with their land. The text is by Andrew Sayers, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, and Murray Bail, whose novels include the prize-winning Eucalyptus.
Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly
Author: Sidney Nolan
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Sidney Nolan (1917 1992) wove a compelling narrative around the figure of Ned Kelly as the 'wronged' anti-hero who forged his own homemade armour and was pursued by police through the often featureless Australian bush. Though the Kelly myth didn't start with Nolan's paintings, his images remain the most enduring and instantly recognisable evocations of the legend. Kelly's stark black silhouette gave Nolan his most powerful poetic metaphor for Australians' relationship with their land. The text is by Andrew Sayers, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, and Murray Bail, whose novels include the prize-winning Eucalyptus.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Sidney Nolan (1917 1992) wove a compelling narrative around the figure of Ned Kelly as the 'wronged' anti-hero who forged his own homemade armour and was pursued by police through the often featureless Australian bush. Though the Kelly myth didn't start with Nolan's paintings, his images remain the most enduring and instantly recognisable evocations of the legend. Kelly's stark black silhouette gave Nolan his most powerful poetic metaphor for Australians' relationship with their land. The text is by Andrew Sayers, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, and Murray Bail, whose novels include the prize-winning Eucalyptus.
Sidney Nolan
Author: Paula Dredge
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606065947
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The newest addition to the Artist’s Materials series offers the first technical study of one of Australia’s greatest modern painters. Sidney Nolan (1917–1992) is renowned for an oeuvre ranging from views of Melbourne’s seaside suburb St. Kilda to an iconic series on outlaw hero Ned Kelly. Working in factories from age fourteen, Nolan began his training spray painting signs on glass, which was followed by a job cutting and painting displays for Fayrefield Hats. Such employment offered him firsthand experience with commercial synthetic paints developed during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1939, having given up his job at Fayrefield in pursuit of an artistic career, Nolan became obsessed with European abstract paintings he saw reproduced in books and magazines. With little regard for the longevity of his work, he began to exploit materials such as boot polish, dyes, secondhand canvas, tissue paper, and old photographs, in addition to commercial and household paints. He continued to embrace new materials after moving to London in 1953. Oil-based Ripolin enamel is known to have been Nolan’s preferred paint, but this fascinating study—certain to appeal to conservators, conservation scientists, art historians, and general readers with an interest in modern art—reveals his equally innovative use of nitrocellulose, alkyds, and other diverse materials.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606065947
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The newest addition to the Artist’s Materials series offers the first technical study of one of Australia’s greatest modern painters. Sidney Nolan (1917–1992) is renowned for an oeuvre ranging from views of Melbourne’s seaside suburb St. Kilda to an iconic series on outlaw hero Ned Kelly. Working in factories from age fourteen, Nolan began his training spray painting signs on glass, which was followed by a job cutting and painting displays for Fayrefield Hats. Such employment offered him firsthand experience with commercial synthetic paints developed during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1939, having given up his job at Fayrefield in pursuit of an artistic career, Nolan became obsessed with European abstract paintings he saw reproduced in books and magazines. With little regard for the longevity of his work, he began to exploit materials such as boot polish, dyes, secondhand canvas, tissue paper, and old photographs, in addition to commercial and household paints. He continued to embrace new materials after moving to London in 1953. Oil-based Ripolin enamel is known to have been Nolan’s preferred paint, but this fascinating study—certain to appeal to conservators, conservation scientists, art historians, and general readers with an interest in modern art—reveals his equally innovative use of nitrocellulose, alkyds, and other diverse materials.
Meet Sidney Nolan
Author: Yvonne Mes
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0857985906
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Sidney Nolan was one of Australia's most renowned artists. This is the story of how Sidney came to create his iconic Ned Kelly paintings.
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0857985906
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Sidney Nolan was one of Australia's most renowned artists. This is the story of how Sidney came to create his iconic Ned Kelly paintings.
Defying Empire
Author: National Gallery of Australia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642334688
Category : Art, Aboriginal Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Bringing together works by 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country, Defying Empire commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum that recognized Aboriginal people as Australians for the first time. It explores the strength and resilience of Australia's Indigenous people since first contact, through the historical fight for recognition and ongoing activism in the present day. This moving and powerful art touches on the issues of identity, racism, displacement, country, nuclear testing, sovereignty and the stolen generations through many media: painting on canvas and bark, weaving and sculpture, new media, prints, photography, metalwork and glasswork. 'We defy: By existing; By determining our identity; By asserting our histories; our culture; our language; By telling our stories, our way; By being one of the oldest continuous living cultures in the world.' - Tina Baum, NGA Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642334688
Category : Art, Aboriginal Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Bringing together works by 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country, Defying Empire commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum that recognized Aboriginal people as Australians for the first time. It explores the strength and resilience of Australia's Indigenous people since first contact, through the historical fight for recognition and ongoing activism in the present day. This moving and powerful art touches on the issues of identity, racism, displacement, country, nuclear testing, sovereignty and the stolen generations through many media: painting on canvas and bark, weaving and sculpture, new media, prints, photography, metalwork and glasswork. 'We defy: By existing; By determining our identity; By asserting our histories; our culture; our language; By telling our stories, our way; By being one of the oldest continuous living cultures in the world.' - Tina Baum, NGA Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
Ned Kelly
Author: Robert Melville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
"Sidney Nolan's 1946-47 paintings on the theme of the 19th-century bushranger Ned Kelly are one of the greatest series of Australian paintings of the 20th century. Nolan's starkly simplified depiction of Kelly in his homemade armour has become an iconic Australian image. Highlighting these works makes the point that Australian art is part of the world, with its own stories to tell. This dual emphasis of connectedness and distinctiveness in relation to culture and place is integral to Nolan's Ned Kelly series."--
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
"Sidney Nolan's 1946-47 paintings on the theme of the 19th-century bushranger Ned Kelly are one of the greatest series of Australian paintings of the 20th century. Nolan's starkly simplified depiction of Kelly in his homemade armour has become an iconic Australian image. Highlighting these works makes the point that Australian art is part of the world, with its own stories to tell. This dual emphasis of connectedness and distinctiveness in relation to culture and place is integral to Nolan's Ned Kelly series."--
Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly
Author: Sidney Nolan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642541956
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642541956
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Modern Love
Author: Kendrah Morgan
Publisher: Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 9780522862812
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Equal parts romance and tragedy, Modern Love explores the lives of these champions of successive generations of Australian artists and writers, whose works and personalities John and Sunday carefully curated to suit their artistic tastes and sexual passions. It is a story of rebellion against their privileged backgrounds and a bohemian existence marked by extraordinary achievements, intense heartbreak and enduring love, a remarkable partnership that changed all those who crossed the threshold into Heide and altered the course of art in Australia.
Publisher: Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 9780522862812
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Equal parts romance and tragedy, Modern Love explores the lives of these champions of successive generations of Australian artists and writers, whose works and personalities John and Sunday carefully curated to suit their artistic tastes and sexual passions. It is a story of rebellion against their privileged backgrounds and a bohemian existence marked by extraordinary achievements, intense heartbreak and enduring love, a remarkable partnership that changed all those who crossed the threshold into Heide and altered the course of art in Australia.
Sidney Nolan
Author: Andrew Sayers
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870997033
Category : Artists' preparatory studies
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
"The Ned Kelly story was painted in 1946-47 by Sidney Nolan, the most famous of all Australian artists. Nolan's cycle of twenty-seven paintings depicts the exploits of Australia's legendary Victorian-era outlaw, Ned Kelly, and his gang. An essay by Andrew Sayers, curator at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, discusses Nolan's debt to the art of Henri Rousseau and his involvement with the both the Australian landscape and the myths surrounding Kelly." -- Back cover
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870997033
Category : Artists' preparatory studies
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
"The Ned Kelly story was painted in 1946-47 by Sidney Nolan, the most famous of all Australian artists. Nolan's cycle of twenty-seven paintings depicts the exploits of Australia's legendary Victorian-era outlaw, Ned Kelly, and his gang. An essay by Andrew Sayers, curator at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, discusses Nolan's debt to the art of Henri Rousseau and his involvement with the both the Australian landscape and the myths surrounding Kelly." -- Back cover
Dancing Girl and the Turtle
Author: Karen Kao
Publisher: Lynn Michell
ISBN: 0993599710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A rape. A war. A society where women are bought and sold but no one can speak of shame. Shanghai 1937. Violence throbs at the heart of The Dancing Girl and the Turtle.Song Anyi is on the road to Shanghai and freedom when she is raped and left for dead. The silence and shamethat mark her courageous survival drive her to escalating self-harm and prostitution. From opium dens to high- class brothels, Anyi dances on the edge of destruction while China prepares for war with Japan. Hers is the voice of every woman who fights for independence against overwhelming odds.The Dancing Girl and the Turtle is one of four interlocking novels set in Shanghai from 1929 to 1954. Through the eyes of the dancer, Song Anyi, and her brother Kang, the Shanghai Quartet spans a tumultuous time in Chinese history: war with the Japanese, the influx of stateless Jews into Shanghai, civil war and revolution. How does the love of a sister destroy her brother and all those around him?
Publisher: Lynn Michell
ISBN: 0993599710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A rape. A war. A society where women are bought and sold but no one can speak of shame. Shanghai 1937. Violence throbs at the heart of The Dancing Girl and the Turtle.Song Anyi is on the road to Shanghai and freedom when she is raped and left for dead. The silence and shamethat mark her courageous survival drive her to escalating self-harm and prostitution. From opium dens to high- class brothels, Anyi dances on the edge of destruction while China prepares for war with Japan. Hers is the voice of every woman who fights for independence against overwhelming odds.The Dancing Girl and the Turtle is one of four interlocking novels set in Shanghai from 1929 to 1954. Through the eyes of the dancer, Song Anyi, and her brother Kang, the Shanghai Quartet spans a tumultuous time in Chinese history: war with the Japanese, the influx of stateless Jews into Shanghai, civil war and revolution. How does the love of a sister destroy her brother and all those around him?
Tell 'em I Died Game
Author: Graham Seal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Ned Kelly did not say Tell 'em I died! But well he might have -- and many people believe he did. Graham Seal's classic study of the Ned Kelly legend shows that, in a sense, facts are unimportant. Many generations of Australians have needed to believe in Ned Kelly, and have tailored his legend to fit their needs. The recent upsurge in Ned Kelly is the latest phase in a tradition that has taken Ned from bush Robin Hood and folk hero to media obsession and national icon, projected to the world as part of the 2000 Sydney Olympics celebrations. Regardless of the facts, the bushranger who murdered policemen and robbed banks remains Australia's best-loved villain -- or hero?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Ned Kelly did not say Tell 'em I died! But well he might have -- and many people believe he did. Graham Seal's classic study of the Ned Kelly legend shows that, in a sense, facts are unimportant. Many generations of Australians have needed to believe in Ned Kelly, and have tailored his legend to fit their needs. The recent upsurge in Ned Kelly is the latest phase in a tradition that has taken Ned from bush Robin Hood and folk hero to media obsession and national icon, projected to the world as part of the 2000 Sydney Olympics celebrations. Regardless of the facts, the bushranger who murdered policemen and robbed banks remains Australia's best-loved villain -- or hero?