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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One of the most famous supporters of the Blues was Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister. In his latter years the club had a special ramp built so that Sir Robert's Bentley could be driven up into the ground to allow him to watch the games from the comfort of his vehicle.
Sir Robert Menzies of TAR
Get down you rabid dogs!
Go the Blue Boys!
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Menzies observes from the Bentley at Princes Park
1972 Round 22 Carlton vs Footscray
Blues won by 3 points
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John Gorton didn't own a movie camera.
PM John Gorton, 10 January 1968 - photo Bruce Postle
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Robert Menzies did own a movie camera - something that John Howard seemed impressed by in his Howard On Menzies : Building Modern Australia series for ABC.TV. However, it is Gorton (Prime Minister from 1968-1971) who is associated with the re-birth of the Australian film culture.
The Gorton Government increased funding for the arts, setting up the Australian Council for the Arts, the Australian Film Development Corporation and the National Film and Television Training School. - wikipedia
Long before that, Captain John Perry of the Salvation Army had been at the forefront of still and cinematic projection in Australia.
The Limelight Department was the Salvation Army’s pioneering film production and presentation unit in Australia. Between 1892 and 1909 it produced many productions, including 300 films and the major multimedia presentations Soldiers of the Cross and Heroes Of The Cross. The unit also documented Australia’s Federation ceremonies in 1901.
Australia's first dedicated film studio was created by The Salvation Army at 69 Bourke Street, Melbourne, in a room that still stands preserved much as it was at the turn of the century.
Man with a Movie Camera is the simple title of a famous 1926 film by the Russian 'cinema-eye' Dziga Vertov. In the hands and imagination of Vertov and his 'kinok' companions, the motion camera and their city-as-actor film gleanings were a means of modern critical social poetry.
That John Howard should present R.G.M. as also a Modern Man with a Movie Camera says as much about Howard's malnourished view of building a modern Australia as it does about Menzies'.
The Dame Pattie Menzies collection no. 1 consists of a leather camera box with embossed initials R.G.M., a magazine Cine-Kodak 16mm camera, 2 boxes Cine-Kodak Kodachrome 16mm safety Colour film, lens, light filter box and cover, light filter in plastic pouch, 25mm lens, film information cards. The camera belonged to former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies and was used by Sir Robert for home movies and to record many of his overseas trips.
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ABC.TV :
Howard On Menzies: Building Modern Australia
Part two, last night, made no mention of Menzies aligning himself with Sir Lionel Lindsay's 1942 polemic "Addled Art", which had as its thesis that modern art was a Jewish conspiracy!
Menzies: “You may judge from the tone of this letter, and quite rightly, that I have recently re-read Addled Art with supreme joy.”
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Sir Robert Menzies
Director of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and
Director of Australia from 1949 to 1966
Sir Robert Menzies by Eric Westbrook, c.1960, when Director of the National Gallery of Victoria
J. S. Macdonald, 1936–41
Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay, 1942–55
Eric Westbrook, 1956–73
Gordon Thomson, 1973–75
Melbourne artists in 1975 protested at the NGV about their relationship with the NGV.
For some reason, it was not the NGV Director who addressed the protesters' grievances but Eric Westbrook, by then several years retired from that role and since installed at the new Victorian Ministry for the Arts.
In this photo from that protest, Eric Westbrook is standing to the left; in the centre, representing the artists, is John Davis; to the right, arguing for other related matters is Terry Smith. (A detailed account around this event can be read in Jonathan Holmes' Going Solo: a report on survey exhibitions in Australian public museums in the 1970s.)
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Dr Eric Westbrook
Prime Minister of the NGV from 1956 to 1973
above : self-sketch by Eric Westbrook, 1950.
collection National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
below : sketch-in protest at NGV, 2004.
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On 26 May 1975, Ivan Durrant dumped the carcass of a "freshly slaughtered cow" on the forecourt of the National Gallery of Victoria.[4][5][8][9] - Wikipedia
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Howard On Menzies: Building Modern Australia
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Dr Eric Westbrook
Prime Minister of the NGV from 1956 to 1973
Self portrait by Eric Westbrook, 1950
collection National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Pedestalsis
busted by Peter Schipperheyn, 1992
commissioned by The Art Foundation of Victoria
collection National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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Sir Robert Menzies
Director of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and
Director of Australia from 1949 to 1966
Sir Robert Menzies by Eric Westbrook, c.1960
Once more unto the breach
dear friend, once more :
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Howard On Menzies: Building Modern Australia
Doris Day :
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories
Sentimental Journey is a popular song, published in 1944.
The music was written by Les Brown and Ben Homer,
and the lyrics were written by Bud Green.
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How would you like to be depicted, Sir Robert?
by Sir Ivor Hale, CBE , 1954
Winner of Archibald Prize for Portraiture, 1954
Collection of Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sir Ivor Henry Thomas Hele, CBE (13 June 1912 – 2 December 1993) was an Australian artist noted for portraiture. He was Australia's longest serving war artist and completed more commissioned works than any other in the history of Australian art. - Wikipedia
by Sir William Dobell OBE , 1960
Commissioned for cover of TIME magazine
Collection of Art Gallery of New South Wales
commissioned by Clothworkers Company, London
by Sir William Dargie CBE , 1971
Commissioned by members of Melb Uni Council
University of Melbourne Art Collection
by Paul Fitzgerald AM , 1970s (?)
Paul Desmond Fitzgerald AM (born 2 August 1922 in Hawthorn, Victoria) is an Australian portrait painter who has painted more people of distinction than any other living Australian artist.
- Wikipedia
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And how would you like to be seen, Sir Robert?
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Series starts tonight on ABC.TV :
Howard On Menzies: Building Modern Australia
As if to disprove his own thesis, former Prime Minister John Winston Howard poses for Theatre of the Actors of Regard before the 1954 Archibald Prize winning portrait painted by Ivor Hele and meta-Titled Rt Hon. R.G. Menzies PC CH QC MP.
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
William Blake, intro to 'Auguries of Innocence'
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'I have made a heap of all that I could find.'
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.
mount (n.1) "hill, mountain," mid-13c., from Anglo-French mount, Old French mont "mountain;" also perhaps partly from Old English munt "mountain;" both the Old English and the French words from Latin montem (nominative mons) "mountain," from PIE root *men- (2) "to stand out, project" (source also of Latin eminere "to stand out;" Sanskrit manya "nape of the neck," Latin monile "necklace;" Old Irish muin "neck," Welsh mwnwgl "neck," mwng "mane;" Welsh mynydd "mountain").
mental (adj.) early 15c., "pertaining to the mind," from Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentalis "of the mind," from Latin mens (genitive mentis) "mind," from PIE root *men- "to think" (source also of Sanskrit matih "thought, mind," Gothic gamunds, Old English gemynd "memory, remembrance;" see mind(n.)). Meaning "crazy, deranged" is from 1927, probably from combinations such as mental hospital.
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Let one who is truly free
succeed
to impede
such passing by
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One night, I couldn't get any action after the concert.
I went back to my hotel by myself.
I made some coffee and took out the music I'd been working on.
A piece for voice and small ensemble.
I called it :
I Have Seen The Pleated Gazelle.
Introduction to The Pleated Gazelle
by Frank Zappa, from 200 Motels, 1971
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I later observed on that 1865 page of
LE MONDE ILLUSTRE
below the initials F.Z.
the following text of TAR :
Si son regard noyé dans mon regard
me laissait lire au fond de son âme :
Je t'aime!
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One night, I couldn't avoid the TAR.
I went back to the studio by myself.
I made some tea and took out the page I'd been working on.
A piece for text and TAR ensemble.
I called it :
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Among the swell of TAR gathered in curiosity around Jean-Luc Godard and his crew that day, standing together opposite Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii (1784), was the Prime Minister of Australia, Sir Robert Gordon Menzies.
Jean-Luc Goddard, 'Bande à part' (Band of Outsiders) running past David's 'Oath of the Horatii', 1964
Afterwards, he joked to Dame Pattie :
"I did but see them rushing by..."
Sir Robert Menzies
The Louvre, 1964
Sir Robert Menzies officially opens Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra,
1964.
Later that year, Sir Robert on Naming a Body of Water :
"When the time came to give the lake a name, I remember my then minister for the Interior, Gordon Freeth, coming to me and saying, 'There is a widespread feeling that, as you have been in a material sense the father of this lake, it should be named after you.' My reply was prompt. 'Gordon,' I said, 'that is a characteristically pleasing thought on your part, but the lake is not going to be named after me. Do you remember that the original designer of this city and the original creator of the whole notion of a lake was Walter Burley Griffin. So far as I know, he has no memorial in this place. He must have one. I want to have the lake called Lake Burley Griffin.' It was so named and has given Griffin a memorial which no man ever more handsomely deserved."
- R G Menzies
The Measure of the Years, 1970 p 147-8.
From the National Capital, Spare Room 33 has alerted us to the cover of The Oath on the cover of the 2005 catalog by the German artists Konsortium.
Members of Konsortium are exhibiting in Melbourne at the moment, at the Justin Art House Museum in the group exhibition Infinite Loop.
Katalog 2005
Lars Breuer, Sebastian Freytag, Jan Kämmerling, Guido Münch
Extra Verlag, Berlin
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