David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.

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14 November 2018

The Field : Theatre of Auditory Regard

Last night we listened to the ABC.TV documentary
Finding The Field.

To a hurlyburly of 1968 imagery, it starts with

not Jimi Hendrix' Crosstown Traffic (1968)

Gioachino Rossini's William Tell Overture.

Then Jerry Lewis mimes over-typing-self with Title
to LeRoy Anderson's The Typewriter, as we in '68

arrive through the arch of the modernew NGV to Tchaikovsky's Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairy

and reflect there on Mel Ramsden and Ian Burn

to a J S Bach organ composition.

Fifty years pass and staff install The Field Revisited
to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Exeunt to Happiness Does Not Wait.

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music credits
poetsoftheinterverse

William Tell Overture
Composed by Rossini
Performed by the South German Philharmonic Orchestra
Piros Classical Records

The Typewriter
by Leroy Anderson

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Original composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution
3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Bach, Organ Sonata No 2 BWV 526,

1st movement, Vivace (C Minor)
Performed by Stephen Malinowski
Keyboard Concerto in A major, BWV 1055, 1. Allegro
Original composition by Johann Sebastian Bach
Synthesized by Carey R. Meltz

Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 performed by E. Power Briggs
Courtesy of Sony BMG Music Entertainment
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd

Bach’s Sinfonia for Cantata No 29
The Grotto Electrasynth-O-Magneticpolyphonic Orchestra

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3, 3rd Movement
As Performed by The Raleigh Ringers, Raleigh, NC, USA
Arranged for Handbells by Hart Morris
Conducted by David M. Harris

Brandenburg Concerto No 3, BWV 1048, 3rd mvt.
Performed by Early Music ensemble Voices of Music
Original composition by Johann Sebastian Bach

A Soalin
Batteast/Mezzetti/Stookey
Performed by Robert Johnson

Celestial Cantabile
Composed by St George E/Russe L
Courtesy of EMI Production Music

Le Carneval des Animaux by Saint Saens:
Introduction and Royal March of the Lion
Licensed courtesy of One Media iP Ltd

Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé, Suite II - Lever du Jour
Performed by The Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Geoffrey Simon
Recording: CACDS4027 Five O’Clock Foxtrot
Used by arrangement with Cala Records Limited

The Four Seasons-Summer-Presto
Composed by Antonio Vivaldi
© Flipper Srl, licensed by Fable Music Pty Ltd (Australia)

Happiness Does Not Wait
Performed by Olafur Arnalds
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd
Courtesy of Erased Tapes Records Ltd
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06 November 2018

Melbourne Cup

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This old man
He stayed home
Stopped The Nation
On his own.

With a knick-knack paddywhack,
Give the nag a name,
The Cliffsofmoher
A sporting shame.

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27 October 2018

FROM ARCHITECTURE TO ARCHITEC-TAR FROM VOLUME 3 TO TAR-VOL 1

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18 October 2018

Vale Alan Abel

Alan Abel, Hoaxer Extraordinaire, Is (on Good Authority) Dead at 94

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16 October 2018

] adverTARsment (

Unlock the Art Market with Christie’s Education Scholarships

The Christie’s Education Reginald Browne joint scholarship offers tuition fees and living expenses for one student enrolled in each of the master’s programs.

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Christie’s Education is unique as the only academic institution wholly owned by an auction house.

All programs at Christie’s Education have been developed to provide focused and intensive training for students looking to start a career in the art world. master’s students also get the opportunity to complete an integrated art world internship as part of their coursework.

Christie’s Education is committed to facilitating access to their programs and expanding opportunities to students from all backgrounds. To support this endeavor, The Christie’s Education Trust, in conjunction with Christie’s Education Inc., is offering a joint tuition and living expenses scholarship for one student in each of the master’s degree programs at Christie’s Education, New York in 2019–2020:

To be eligible for consideration students must:

meet the admissions requirements for the relevant master’s degree program
be able to demonstrate financial need, which will be assessed based on requested details of income, other financial information and plans for financing studies.

These scholarships are also available for master’s programs at Christie’s Education, London campus.

Scholarship applications must be received by April 30, 2019.

For more information, visit christies.edu.

For gainful employment disclosures, visit christies.edu/gedt.

12 October 2018

Shape of Regard

click here to watch video

Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern until 14 October.

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Installation view of the exhibition

Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art
at Tate Modern, London
showing Nathan Lerner's Light Tapestry top left,
and Otto Steinert's Luminogram II centre right.

Photo: © Tate / Sepharina Neville.

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Installation view of the exhibition

Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art
at Tate Modern, London
showing Sigmar Polke's Untitled (Uranium Green) 1992.
Hans Georg Näder © The Estate of Sigmar Polke /
VG Bild-Kunst Bonn and DACS London, 2018.
Photo: © Tate / Seraphina Neville.

Shape of Regard at TAR Modern...

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08 October 2018

Polly Borland: Polyverse

Polly Borland: Polyverse presents new and recent work by the celebrated Australian-born, Los Angeles–based artist. While perhaps most widely known for her portraits of prominent figures including Queen Elizabeth II and musician Nick Cave, many works included in the exhibition explore more surreal imagery in which magnetic visual qualities embody a distorted, punkish humour. Through […]

NGV AUSTRALIA, FEDERATION SQUARE

LEVEL 3, CONTEMPORARY ART & DESIGN

28 SEPTEMBER 2018 - 3 FEBRUARY 2019

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13 September 2018

TAR : The Beckoning

Natasha Johns-Messenger

Water-Orb 2018

Ian Potter Sculpture Court, Caulfield Campus

MUMA is pleased to launch our Ian Potter Sculpture Court Commission with a new work by Natasha Johns-Messenger, Water-Orb 2018.

In this work Johns-Messenger uses simple optical physics to activate a chasm between what we think we see and what we know. Employing an ocular-like form, the work beckons our observation of a dynamic body of water that appears to defy gravity as it flows.

Supported by MUMA Contemporaries.

Photo : Christian Capurro

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12 September 2018

"LOGO" | Figure + Field

regarding LOGOS | LOGO | "LOGO"

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from Online Etymology Dictionary

logo (n.)
"simple symbol or graphic meant to represent something," 1937, probably a shortening of logogram "sign or character representing a word."

logocentric (adj.)
"centered on reason," 1931, from logo- "reason" + -centric.

logorrhea (n.)
1878, from logo- "word, speech" + ending from diarrhea.

logolatry (n.)
"worship of words," 1810 (Coleridge), from logo- + -latry "worship of." …

logomaniac (n.)
"one mad for words," 1870; see logo- "word" + maniac (see mania).…

logophobia (n.)
"fear of words," 1890; see logo- "word" + -phobia "fear." Related: Logophobe; logophobic.

logo-
before vowels log-, word-forming element meaning "speech, word," also "reason," from Greek logos "word, discourse; reason," from PIE root *leg- (1) "to collect, gather," with derivatives meaning "to speak (to 'pick out words')."

logomachy (n.)
see logo- + -machy). Related: Logomach; logomachical. …

logogram (n.)
"word-sign, sign or character representing a word," 1840, from logo- "word" + -gram. Generically, "any symbol representing …

logograph (n.)"instrument for giving a graphic representation of speech, word-writer," 1879, from logo- "word" + -graph "instrument for …

logograph (n.)
"instrument for giving a graphic representation of speech, word-writer," 1879, from logo- "word" + -graph "instrument for …

logocracy (n.)
"system of government in which words are the ruling powers," 1804; see logo- + -cracy "rule or government by." Popularized by …
*leg- (1)
logic; logistic; logo-; logogriph …

swoosh (n.)
1860, sound made by something (originally a fishing rod during a cast) moving rapidly through the air; imitative. As a verb from 1867. The Nike corporate logo so called from 1989.

letter-head (n.)
also letterhead, "sheet of paper with a printed or engraved logo or address," 1868, short for letterheading (1867 …

prudential (adj.)
Related: Prudentially. Prudential, the U.S. insurance company, dates to the 1870s; its logo featuring the Rock of Gibraltar dates from c. 1900 and was widely known 20c.

logogriph (n.)
type of word puzzle based on synonyms, etc., and often in the form of a verse, 1590s, from French logogriphe, from Greek logos "word" (see Logos) + gripos/griphos "riddle," a figurative use, literally "fishing basket, creel," probably from a pre-Greek word in a lost Mediterranean language. "The variation [p/ph] is typical for Pre-Greek words; such an origin for a fisherman's word is quite understandable" [Beekes].

logopoeia (n.)
a quality in poetic writing that charges words with meaning based on context and prior usage, a term introduced, along with phanopoeia(visual image) and melopoeia (sound), by Ezra Pound from Greek logopoeia, from logos "word" (see Logos) + poiein "to make, create" (see poet).

logon
in computer sense, as one word, by 1975, from log (v.2) + on (adv.).

Logos (n.)
1580s, "the divine Word, second person of the Christian Trinity," from Greek logos "word, speech, statement, discourse," also "computation, account," also "reason," from PIE *log-o-, suffixed form of root *leg- (1) "to collect, gather," with derivatives meaning "to speak," on notion of "to pick out words." The Greek word was used by Neo-Platonists in metaphysical and theological senses involving notions of both "reason" and "word" and subsequently picked up by New Testament writers

Serena Williams examines her smashed racket during the

women's final of the United States Open. (New York Times)

photo : Danielle Parhizkaran/USA Today Sports, via Reuters

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02 September 2018

total TAR | incl. Politics of Seeing

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24 August 2018

We are as shadows...

Watching the parade-to-execution of a Prime Minister, on TV an hour ago, we screen-snapped this one image of PM Malcolm Turnbull (centre) and his ally Arthur Sinidinos (left) as they passed by an artwork of John Coburn, all lit by camera flashes.

As he approaches the Liberal Party Meeting Room for the leadership vote, the Prime Minister knows he will be overthrown by former PM Tony Abbott's revolt of reactionary avengers.

Arthur Sinidinos, who was instrumental in Turnbull's ascendency over Abbott three years ago, is seriously ill with cancer.

The people's Parliament House Art Collection is very poorly represented online. We needed to search elsewhere to confirm details of the John Coburn artwork : appropriate to this Theatre of the Actors of Regard procession of shadows...
its title is Death and transfiguration.

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And the vote, the result? The Liberal Party has today elected this person, Scott Morrison, as Australia's next Prime Minister, leader of the Government COALition.

photo Mike Bowers / The Guardian

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And Josh Frydenberg, the present Minister for the Environment and Energy (below with coal) was elected as Deputy Prime Minister.

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20 August 2018

Mark of the Year!

On a similar theme to the previous post, here's
third man up from nowhere.

We imagine Yves Klein being somehow involved :
all of a sudden reappearing, coming off the bench
all these years later to take a screamer from nowhere.

Mark of the Year!

Yves Klein/ Easton Wood/ Shunk-Kender/ FIAPCE/ TAR/ AFL

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30 July 2018

TAR at TarraWarra : MEDIA PREVIEW & PICTURE OPPORTUNITY

TarraWarra Biennial 2018

FROM WILL TO FORM

Exhibition curated by Emily Cormack

3 August – 6 November 2018

WHAT: An opportunity to interview the curator, Emily Cormack and selected artists in the Museum before the official opening. To capture pictures of curator, artists, performances and artwork installed in this exhibition.

WHEN: Friday 3 August 2018, 10 to 10.50am before the opening, 11am to 1pm

WHERE: TarraWarra Museum of Art, 313 Healesville-Yarra Glen Road, Healesville http://www.twma.com.au/getting-here/

WHO: Curator: Emily Cormack

ARTISTS: Belle Bassin, Dale Harding, Bridie Lunney, Mike Parr, artists from Erub Arts

Please advise if you would like to interview other TarraWarra Biennial 2018 artists not listed above.

Below : Claire Lambe, Witnessing Bacon 2018, wool, silk and cotton tapestry; digital prints; bronze basin, dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist; Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne; and Francis Bacon Studio at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland

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22 July 2018

clear and direct

We are always pleased to receive the generous gift that is each new blog post from Marcus Bunyan at Art Blart.

From his current personal offering, we are still chewing the cud of his introductory last sentence, below :

Paris in film 2018

These photographs were taken on a trip to Paris in 2017 using my Mamiya twin-lens C220 medium format camera shot on Kodak Ektra 100 colour negative film.

They are only basic jpg scans of the negs, full frame, no cropping, and I have colour corrected as best I can, noting that all digital images look different from computer monitor to monitor – one of the perennial hazards of looking at work online. They have not been sequenced at the moment.

The photographs seem to hang well together as a body of work. I would love to get good scans and print some of them.

Through their clear visualisation, the photographs speak directly to the viewer.

Marcus

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