Aubrey Beardsley The Savoy 1896 lithograph (poster) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Aubrey Beardsley The Yellow Book 1894 lithograph (poster) Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
Aubrey Beardsley Pseudonym and Autonym Library Series published by T. Fisher Unwin 1894 lithograph (poster) Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
Aubrey Beardsley Ornamental Designs for John Lane 1895 drawing National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Cecil Beaton Charles James Evening Dresses 1948 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Cecil Beaton Lady Beaverbrook 1952 hand-colored gelatin silver print Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick |
Cecil Beaton Lady Hudson ca. 1928 gelatin silver print Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Cecil Beaton Miss Edith Sitwell, famous English Poetess ca. 1929 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Dean Bowen Flying Pie 1991 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Dean Bowen Mechanical Object 1988 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Dean Bowen The Colosseum 1990 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Dean Bowen The Lone Chimney 1990 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Horace Brodzky Discussion 1958 oil on board National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Horace Brodzky Builders 1919 linocut National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Horace Brodzky Bather 1920 linocut (book illustration) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Horace Brodzky Expulsion 1914 linocut Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
from Journey to Iceland
a horse-shoe ravine, an issue of steam from a cleft
the site of a church where a bishop was put in a bag,
Europe is absent: this is an island and should be
a refuge, where the affections of its dead can be bought
by those whose dreams accuse them of being
spitefully alive, and the pale
from too much passion of kissing feel pure in its deserts.
But is it, can they, as the world is and can lie?
A narrow bridge over a torrent,
a small farm under a crag
are natural settings for the jealousies of a province:
a weak vow of fidelity is made at a cairn,
within the indigenous figure on horseback
on the bridle-path down by the lake
his blood moves also by furtive and crooked inches,
asks all our questions: Where is the homage? When
shall justice be done? Who is against me?
Why am I always alone?
– W.H. Auden (1936)