Gustavs Klucis Toward the Struggle against Literary Hooliganism (back cover of book by Aleksey Kruchonykh) 1926 lithograph and letterpress National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Gustavs Klucis Let Us Fulfill the Plan 1930 hand-colored gelatin silver print (photomontage for poster) National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
Gustavs Klucis The Words of Lenin (pamphlet cover) 1925 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Gustavs Klucis Fifteen Years of Russian Futurism (book cover) 1928 lithograph and letterpress National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Charles Conder The Sands, Newquay 1906 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Charles Conder Beach Scene, Newquay 1907 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
Charles Conder Invitation to the Leicester Galleries 1905 hand-colored lithograph Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Charles Conder The Buddha ca. 1905 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Auguste Racinet Examples of Polychromatic Decoration - Assyrian 1873 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Auguste Racinet Examples of Polychromatic Decoration - Celtic 1873 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Auguste Racinet Examples of Polychromatic Decoration - Chinese and Japanese 1873 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Auguste Racinet Examples of Polychromatic Decoration - French 1873 chromolithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Carol Jerrems Wendy Saddington 1973 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Carol Jerrems Waiting 1975 gelatin silver print Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
Carol Jerrems Patch of Light 1977 gelatin silver print Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
Carol Jerrems Fashion Models in Myer Carpark 1970 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
from Canzone
When shall we learn, what should be clear as day,
We cannot chose what we are free to love?
Although the mouse we banished yesterday
Is an enlarged rhinoceros to-day,
Our value is more threatened than we know:
We cannot chose what we are free to love?
Although the mouse we banished yesterday
Is an enlarged rhinoceros to-day,
Our value is more threatened than we know:
Shabby objections to our present day
Go snooping round its outskirts; night and day
Go snooping round its outskirts; night and day
Faces, orations, battles, bait our will
As questionable forms and noises will;
Whole phyla of resentments every day
Give status to the wild men of the world
Who rule the absent-minded and this world.
We are created from and with the world
To suffer with and from it day by day:
Whether we meet in a majestic world
Of solid measurements or a dream world
Of swans and gold, we are required to love
All homeless objects that require a world.
Our claim to own our bodies and our world
Is our catastrophe. What can we know
But panic and caprice until we know
Our dreadful appetite demands a world
Whose order, origin, and purpose will
Be fluent satisfaction of our will?
As questionable forms and noises will;
Whole phyla of resentments every day
Give status to the wild men of the world
Who rule the absent-minded and this world.
We are created from and with the world
To suffer with and from it day by day:
Whether we meet in a majestic world
Of solid measurements or a dream world
Of swans and gold, we are required to love
All homeless objects that require a world.
Our claim to own our bodies and our world
Is our catastrophe. What can we know
But panic and caprice until we know
Our dreadful appetite demands a world
Whose order, origin, and purpose will
Be fluent satisfaction of our will?
– W.H. Auden (1942)