Made in 1978

Gary Robinson
First Increased Funding for Public Libraries Solidarity Ball
1978
screenprint (poster)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Clark McDougall
East Broadway, Buffalo
1978
screenprint
Museum London, Ontario

Maxwell Bates
Woman in Blue
1978
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Bernd and Hilla Becher
Winding Tower no. 3
1978
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Bernd and Hilla Becher
Winding Tower no. 5
1978
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Bernd and Hilla Becher
Winding Tower no. 8
1978
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Bernd and Hilla Becher
Winding Tower no. 9
1978
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Robert Owen
Blue Wall, Burano, Italy
1978
C-print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Robert Owen
Green Hose, Burano, Italy
1978
C-print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Robert Owen
Green Sheet, Burano, Italy
1978
C-print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Robert Owen
Pink Wall, Burano, Italy
1978
C-print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Michals Duane
The Old Man photographs the Young Man
(from portfolio, Homage to Cavafy)
1978
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Kenneth Josephson
Chicago
1978
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

William Harper
Brooch
1978
quartz, pearl, moonstone, silver, gold and enamel
Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin

Grant Mudford
Los Angeles
1978
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberrar

Wayne Sorce
The Luis Medina Bathroom
1978
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Sonnets from China

                                 VI

He watched the stars and noted birds in flight;
A river flooded or a fortress fell:
He made predictions that were sometimes right;
His lucky guesses were rewarded well.

Falling in love with Truth before he knew Her,
He rode into imaginary lands,
By solitude and fasting hoped to woo Her,
And mocked at those who served her with their hands.

Drawn as he was to magic and obliqueness,
In Her he honestly believed, and when
At last She beckoned to him he obeyed,

Looked in Her eyes: awe-struck but unafraid,
Saw there reflected every human weakness,
And knew himself as one of many men. 

– W.H. Auden (1938)