Kenneth Price Lizard Cup 1971 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Kenneth Price Coffee Shop at the Chicago Art Institute 1971 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Kenneth Price French Figurine Cup 1971 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Kenneth Price Green Turtle Cup 1971 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Sybil Craig Recumbent Model 1937 drawing National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Sybil Craig Bookplate Design ca. 1940-42 drawing National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Sybil Craig Bookplate Design ca. 1940-42 drawing National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Sybil Craig Bookplate ca. 1942 linocut National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Owen Jones Grammar of Ornament - Turkish 1856 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Owen Jones Grammar of Ornament - Pompeian 1856 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Owen Jones Grammar of Ornament - Egyption 1856 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Owen Jones Grammar of Ornament - Chinese 1856 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Berenice Abbott Portrait of poet Edna St Vincent Millay ca. 1930 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Berenice Abbott Portrait of Mrs Raymond Massey (Dorothy Whitney) ca. 1925 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Berenice Abbott Portrait of Princess Marthe Bibesco 1927 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Berenice Abbott Portrait of writer Solita Solano 1927 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
from Under Which Lyre
Ares at last has quit the field,
The bloodstains on the bushes yield
To seeping showers,
And in their convalescent state
The fractured towns associate
With summer flowers.
Encamped upon the college plain
Raw veterans already train
As freshman forces;
Instructors with sarcastic tongue
Shepherd the battle-weary young
Through basic courses.
Among bewildering appliances
For mastering the arts and sciences
They stroll or run,
And nerves that steeled themselves to slaughter
Are shot to pieces by the shorter
Poems of Donne.
Professors back from secret missions
Resume their proper eruditions,
Though some regret it;
They liked their dictaphones a lot,
They met some big wheels, and do not
Let you forget it.
But Zeus' inscrutable decree
Permits the will-to-disagree
To be pandemic,
Ordains that vaudeville shall preach
And every commencement speech
Be a polemic.
Let Ares doze, that other war
Is instantly declared once more
'Twixt those who follow
Precocious Hermes all the way
And those who without qualms obey
Pompous Apollo.
Brutal like all Olympic games,
Though fought with smiles and Christian names
And less dramatic,
This dialectic strife between
The civil gods is just as mean,
And more fanatic.
– W.H. Auden (1946)