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| Claes Oldenburg The Letter Q as Beach House with Sailboat 1972 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Claes Oldenburg Geometric Mouse 1969-71 painted aluminum and steel Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Claes Oldenburg Ice Cream Soda with Cookie 1963 painted plaster and glass with found objects Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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| Claes Oldenburg Ice Bag (scale B) 1971 mixed-media construction National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Tom Roberts Madame Hartl 1909-1910 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Tom Roberts Smike Streeton, age 24 1891 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Tom Roberts Study of Lena Brasch ca. 1893 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Tom Roberts Eileen 1892 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Brassaï English Showgirl, Folies Bergère 1932 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Brassaï Stagehand Asleep, Folies Bergère ca. 1932 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Brassaï Masked Women in Carnival Sideshow ca. 1933 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Brassaï Women on Parade in Carnival Sideshow ca. 1933 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne) Stop Uranium Sales to France ca. 1983-87 screenprint (postcard) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne) Agitate for Nuclear-free Fish ca. 1983-87 screenprint (postcard) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne) No Child Need Ever Worry 1983 screenprint (poster) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Jillposters (feminist collective in Melbourne) Direct from Grower to You 1984 screenprint (poster) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
from A Walk after Dark
A cloudless night like this
Can set the spirit soaring:
After a tiring day
Can set the spirit soaring:
After a tiring day
The clockwork spectacle is
Impressive in a slightly boring
Eighteenth-century way.
It soothed adolescence a lot
To meet so shameless a stare;
The things I did could not
Be so shocking as they said
If that would still be there
After the shocked were dead.
Now, unready to die
But already at the stage
When one starts to resent the young,
I am glad those points in the sky
May also be counted among
The creatures of middle age.
It's cosier thinking of night
As more an Old People's Home
Than a shed for a faultless machine,
Than a shed for a faultless machine,
That the red pre-Cambrian light
Is gone like Imperial Rome
Is gone like Imperial Rome
Or myself at seventeen.
Yet however much we may like
The stoic manner in which
The stoic manner in which
The classical authors wrote,
Only the young and the rich
Have the nerve or the figure to strike
The lacrimae rerum note.
The lacrimae rerum note.
– W.H. Auden (1948)