TAR : The Arts in Review [ 2023 )

Christopher Allen - Visual Arts in Review (2023) - The Australian (23-24  December) - Peter Tyndall at Buxton Contemporary

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inside the waterfall : The Annual Rave

  

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dependent-arising : space-time-conscious : before-after Donald Judd

Today, this :

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Fifty years ago, regarding 'Some Recent American Art' at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne :

Some years earlier, Theatre of the Actors of Regard (Bendigo)

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TAR : This Annual Repost

This Annual Repost is first from 2021 then 2022 and now 2023 after last night's loss by The Bombers to top side Port Adelaide from a 55m kick delivered by Dan Houston after the siren.

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TAR (The Alternative Render) presents

The Alternative Render

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TAR (Trauma of the Arid ReplicaTAR) presents

‘The Persecution and Assassination of Pierre Bonnard as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of TAR Under the Direction of the Marquis de TAR’, usually shortened to Bonnard/TAR (pronounced : bon-ah-TAR), after a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

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letter to an art student

THE VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS 

                      24th April, 1974.

Mr P. Tyndall, 

49 McIlwraith Street, 

NORTH CARLTON. Vic. 3054  

Dear Peter,  

I have to notify you that the mid-term reports are now being compiled by the teaching staff. In your case it will be exceedingly difficult as you rarely if ever work in the school. I wish to point out that an unsatisfactory report or no report at all ultimately means that you will not be promoted to the successive year. Let me also remind you that you are required by the College authorities to comply with 80% attendance unless you have been granted permission of leave from the Dean of the School of Art.  

                      Yours sincerely,  

                      Marc Clark 

                      Senior Lecturer 

Towards Atelier Reform  

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STORE 5 | Kerrie Poliness | 1992

From the heap, the announcement sheet for a Kerrie Poliness exhibition at STORE 5, September 1992...

 Below, Pitch Your Own Tent, MUMA exhibition catalog, 2005 

 Cover image, Marco Fusinato (at Store 5), 100%, 1993

 ...plus attendee's overdrawn fanfare.

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It's a hit!

We remember seeing Running Jumping Standing Still 

in Melbourne in the late 1960s. 

Their big hit was a variation of Bo Diddley and Willie Dixon's Diddy Wah Diddy.

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Presumably, the band took their name from the short film Running, Jumping and Standing Still by Richard Lester, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and others.

Their big hit comes from the Fourth Wall borderlands ...



Today, we present Running Jumping Standing Still-Life.

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A tableau ...

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... in which TAR gives a whack and takes a hit! gives a whack and takes a hit! gives a whack and takes a hit! 

gives a whack and takes a hit! gives a whack and takes 

a hit! gives a whack and takes a hit! gives a whack and takes a hit! 

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re. Visible means of support (#4)

Today, Geoff Parr's 1967 photographs of  Two Decades of American Art installed at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. 

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re. Visible means of support (#3)

Today, Barnett Newman.

 TARist regards Barnett Newman's 'The Third' at 'Two Decades of 

 American Art', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1967 

 photo Geoff Parr

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Sign is the sign of allsign.

On this day, one hundred years ago :

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement." According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking".

- Wikipedia

Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.

- James Joyce's ‘Ulysses’

           
Lot 66:           James Joyce Ulysses 1/750 1st edition

Title:              Ulysses

Author:         Joyce, James

Place:            Paris

Publisher:    Shakespeare and Company

Date:            1922

Description:
[8], 732, [1] pp. 24x18 cm. (9½x7¼"), original blue paper wrappers lettered in white, with integral turnovers present; custom, and fairly old, half morocco slipcase & chemise. No. 255 of 750 copies printed on handmade paper, from a total run of 1000 copies. First Edition, First Printing.

A nice, untrimmed copy in the original wrappers of arguably the greatest work of literature of the twentieth century. This is one of the earliest copies from the press - the 750 copies printed on handmade paper were the first copies printed, and the numbering began with 251 - this copy at 255 would have been the fifth to have been completed. Furthermore, according to publisher Sylvia Beach's record of sales, #255 is listed as one of the very first copies to have been sold, being bought on February 9th, 1922. "Ulysses" can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm Lowry, and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute to Joyce's influence. According to James Spoerri, "This fortunate combination of printer [Maurice Darantiére and publisher [Sylvia Beach] resulted in the appearance of 'Ulysses' as a book whose physical aspect is particularly suited to its content. It is a fair and inviting volume, the blue and white of its covers subtly evocative of the Greece whose epic it so closely parallels." Slocum & Cahoon A17. Bookplate of Ad &Ben Schulberg affixed to inside of front wrapper.

Lot Amendments:

Condition:
Later slipcase worn, repairs to spine and joints; original wrappers with some rubbing to edges, splitting at joints, spine with some wear and portion repaired; a rare copy untrimmed and in the original wrappers.

  Peter Tyndall : Dagger Definitions, Pamela Hansford

  Published by Greenhouse (Melbourne), first edition 1987

Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic. Space: what you damn well have to see. Through spaces smaller than red globules of man's blood they creepycrawl after Blake's buttocks into eternity of which this vegetable world is but a shadow. Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

- James Joyce's ‘Ulysses’

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La Grande Bouffe < blow-out

Philip Brophy in this weekend's MeMO review :

          Everyone simply loved it. State politicians stood in front of it (like every moron in Melbourne) to have their photo taken. The NGV website has a short promo discussing its curatorial purchase and placement. But do you think I could find anyone anywhere to critically engage with this work, short of reprising the NGV’s sound-bytes or Anadol’s own assertions? Am I second-guessing that most MeMO readers saw it, hated it and can’t bring themselves to even remember it? Maybe therein lies the core of the problem: how screen culture’s increasing leakage of totemic and monumental art commissions constitutes a critical drowning-out of discursive engagement.

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NGV Triennial 2020 installation view of Refik Anadol (designer); Refik Anadol Studio, Los Angeles (design studio) Quantum memories 2020. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Proposed acquisition with funds donated by Loti & Victor Smorgon Fund and Barry Janes and Paul Cross, 2020 © Refik Anadol. 

Photo: Tom Ross

As above, so below :

     TARist

     projection-space

     words

 Yosa Buson (1716-1784) ink paper scroll digital reproduction regard

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Pilgrim (after The Journeys of TARzen)

In mythology, folklore and the Shinto religion of Japan,

Tenjin (天神) is the patron kami (deity) of academics, scholarship, of learning, and of the intelligentsia.  

Tenjin is the deification of Sugawara no Michizane 

(845–903), the famous scholar, poet and politician of the Heian period.  

Ten (天) means sky and jin (神) means god or deity. The original meaning of Tenjin, sky deity, is almost the same as that of Raijin (a god of thunder)

  Title: “Tenmangū,” Sugawara no Michizane as Tenjin 

              Traveling to China

  Artist: Sengai Gibon (Japanese, 1750–1837)

  Period: Edo period (1615–1868)

  Date: early 19th century

  Culture: Japan

  Collection: Metropolitan Museum, NY

  Below: TARist as TARzen carrying Title branch from 

               Bonzaview to Melbourne

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COVID-19 Melbourne : masks not required when outdoors | still required indoors

photo from today's Guardian  

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