Hair-raising stories of your life in the old times Chris. The revolution(s)
as themselves Roantic gestures? I think Frederick would go along with that?
I have nothing but questions in this mode it seems.
As to Whiteley, well I remember being introduced to him by an ex-rocker who
loved his work & had the early big book. When I got to the galleries, I
confess I was most taken by Fred Williams, but a lot of the other major
20th century Australian artists got to me too, & Whiteley's work is
certainly interestingfor the way it takes up the Romanticism of the 60s &
then how he, even with the drugs etc, somehow gets past that, or through
it, & manages to construct some massive canvases that interrogate, in their
way, the very things they also celebrate.
Thanks for your provocative thinking on all of this...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
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and as you read
the sea is turning its dark pages
turning
its dark pages.
Denise Levertov
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