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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CONFRONTING CONTEMPORARY ART :
ABSTRACT PAINTING AND OP-ART
10.30AM SAT 17 AUG 2019
What have you always wanted to know about contemporary art, but been too afraid to ask? In this interactive seminar, Dr Mark Pennings, Senior Lecturer, Visual Arts, Queensland University of Technology, takes
a close look at the abstract paintings within the Australian Collection and mesmerising Op-Art works featured in the ‘Geometries’ exhibition.
photo : QAGOMA
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Theatre of the Actors of Regard in classic tableau, below, at the Tate Modern's recently opened
ARTIST ROOMS : Ed Ruscha.
photo by Tate Photography/Oliver Cowling
photo by Tate Photography/Oliver Cowling
The TARchetype, GeniTAR Prime :
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The deep parts of my life pour onward,
as if the river shores were opening out.
It seems that things are more like me now,
That I can see farther into paintings.
I feel closer to what language can't reach.
With my senses, as with birds, I climb
into the windy heaven, out of the oak,
in the ponds broken off from the sky
my falling sinks, as if standing on fishes.
Rainer Maria Rilke [1875-1926]
Untitled Part 1
1988
Cy Twombly
Untitled Part 9
1988
Cy Twombly
Untitled (Bassano in Teverina)
1985
Cy Twombly
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The word idiot comes from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs 'a private person, individual', 'a private citizen' (as opposed to an official), 'a common man', 'a person lacking professional skill, layman', later 'unskilled', 'ignorant' from ἴδιος, idios 'private', 'one's own'...[3]
An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek ἰδέα idéa idea and γράφω gráphō to write) is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept, independent of any particular language, and specific words or phrases.
The word idea comes from Greek ἰδέα idea "form, pattern," from the root of ἰδεῖν idein, to see.[3]
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The Courtesan Jigoku-dayu and Priest Ikkyu, 1899,
by Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908)
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so many paths go up from the foothills
but one moon grazes the peak
- Ikkyu (transl. Stephen Berg)
Netsuke depicting Ikkyu and his TAR prop skull
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The Courtesan Jigoku-dayu and Priest Ikkyu, 1899,
by Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908)
No One Sees It The Same
The mind flows like water through the four
mindfulnesses never the same.
Buddha realm, Mara's fortress the then and now.
Cold wind, wind-blown snow, moon among the
plum blossoms;
The drinker toys with his cup, the poet hums
a poem.
- Ikkyu (transl. Sonja Arntzen)
*the four mindfulnesses : this is a discipline of meditating on
the "body" to realise its impurity, on "sensation" to realise that the perception of things pleasant and unpleasant is the root of pain, on "thought" to realise its impermanence and on objects"
to realise their absence of self. p. 236 here
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after :
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
(Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade),
a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
NGA Online Label :
Sidney Nolan
Carlton, Victoria, Australia 1917 – London, England 1992
Boy and the moon
c.1939-40
- Alternate title
- Moonboy
- Place made
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Materials & Technique
- paintings, oil on canvas, mounted on composition board
- Primary insc
- No inscriptions
- Dimensions
- 73.3 h x 88.2 w cm
- framed (overall) 80.1 h x 95 w x 3 d cm
- Acknowledgement
- Purchased 1976
- Accession no
- NGA 76.560
- Image rights
- © Sidney Nolan Trust
NGV Online Label :
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LOGOS/HA HA
] Execution of Moon Boy
by the Citizens Committee of Melbourne (
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CULTURAL CONSUMPTION PRODUCTION
Artist Theatre of the Actors of Regard
Australian fiction writer Gerald Murnane is tipped to win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. There’s no better time to watch Philip Tyndall’s little-seen 1989 film about Murnane,
Words And Silk: The Imaginary and Real Worlds of Gerald Murnane, which will screen at MIFF in celebration of its 30th anniversary.
"In the Oxford Companion to Australian Film published in 1999, Philip Tyndall's Words and Silk: The Imaginary and Real Worlds of Gerald Murnane – one of my personal all-time favourite Australian films – does not rate a mention. This is sadly symptomatic of how strange, unique, unclassifiable works tend to go underground rather speedily in Australia."
- Adrian Martin ( here )
Before the renewal of interest in Melbourne-born writer Gerald Murnane that followed a 2018 feature article in The New York Times which dubbed him “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of”, as well as his winning the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Border Districts, filmmaker Philip Tyndall (someone looks at something, MIFF 1987) created this inventive hybrid film. Divided into two parts, the first details Murnane’s ‘Imaginary’ world, using abstract images, shapes and textures. In contrast, the second section stays in the ‘Real’ world, where Murnane speaks directly to the camera in a more formal way.
Words And Silk: The Imaginary and Real Worlds of Gerald Murnane is at its heart about Murnane's love of writing and horse racing, built around an interwoven mosaic of still imagery, archival footage, dramatic re-creations and talking head, reflecting the film's fine line between fact and fiction. The result is a poetic, vital study of arguably Australia’s greatest living fiction writer – more compelling today than he ever was. Words And Silk: The Imaginary and Real Worlds of Gerald Murnane is a unique and empathetic portrait of the artist and his creative process. Don’t miss this very rare opportunity to see it on the big screen.
"Gerald Murnane, as he presents himself, is like a modest but furiously noble hero from a Straub-Huillet film: he conjures his struggle with language, with words, with truth and with fiction, his way of forming and retaining images in his mind – by setting down (as he so intensely testifies) one sentence after another. This writing is like a thin red line that separates the author from the terror of some unnameable void, or chaos. Words and Silk, in its own relentless progression from frame to frame, word to word, and image to image, joins forces with Murnane's struggle to express and master that void – and it is a spellbinding spectacle."
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【三輪月底】1778-1860 江戸時代後期の俳人。 安永7年生まれ。尾張名古屋藩の大工。文化8年大工与頭代。はじめ井上士朗,のち竹内塊翁(かいおう)にまなび,名古屋俳壇を指導した。 万延元年5月13日死去。83歳。通称は勝四郎,直九郎など。別号に蓼光庵。里村逸八とも称した。編著に「さみたれ」など。
Miwa moon bottom
(reading)
Miwa Tsukisoko 1788-1860
The late Edo period haiku. Born in Yasunaga 7 years. Owari (end) Carpenter of Nagoya Sakai. 8 years of culture carpenter Yodai. He first taught Inoue Shiro, and later Takeuchi Kouki (Kaiou), and he taught Nagoya Haikan. May 13th died on May 13th. 83 years old. Known as Katsushiro and Naokurou. Another issue Tadekoan to. It is also called Satomura Itohachi. "Samitare" in the editorial book.
collection FIAPCE
TAR moon bottoms
(pointing, after Sengai))
Pay Your Respects To Art, Continually
Fosterville Institute of Applied & Progressive Cultural Experience -1976-
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends,
once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
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TARists with Untitled (2006-07) by Anish Kapoor
dedicated to former QAG director Doug Hall, AM
...for there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
- from 'Henry V' by William Shakespeare
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TARist with Water-Orb (2018) by Natasha Johns-Messenger
photo by Christian Capurro
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The Age :
Iraqi asylum seeker sews his lips together amid mounting despair at MITA, lawyer says
by Bianca Hall, 23 July 2019
A desperate Iraqi asylum seeker, who has been detained in Australia for seven years, was hospitalised after sewing his lips together at a Melbourne immigration detention centre on Monday night.
Detainees at the troubled Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) have been left devastated and demanding answers since 23-year-old Abdul Aziz died in mysterious circumstances less than two weeks ago.
Crikey :
A final goodbye to Abdul, the latest man to die in Australian detention
by Rebekah Holt, 24 July 2019
Abdul Aziz, a 23-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, died in detention. Crikey was invited by his family and friends to exclusively bear witness before his body was sent home.
In Memoriam : Abdul Aziz
by Janet, on her ironing board, 19 July 2019
Rural Australians for Refugees, Daylesford.
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