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| William Eggleston Azaleas ca. 1978 C-print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| William Eggleston Field of Daisies and Common Lupins ca. 1978 C-print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| William Eggleston Irises ca. 1978 C-print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| William Eggleston Rose Bush ca. 1978 C-print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Tom Gibbons For William Blake 1 2010 digital print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Tom Gibbons For William Blake 2 2010 digital print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Tom Gibbons For William Blake 3 2010 digital print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Tom Gibbons Still Life: Dorothy Lamour 1983 hand-colored photocopy of collage National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Paul Signac La Salle à manger, Opus 152 1886-87 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Paul Signac Le Dimanche Parisien 1888 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Paul Signac Railway Junction at Bois-Colombes 1885-86 oil on canvas Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| Paul Signac Still Life ca. 1926 watercolor on paper Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock |
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| Robyn Stacey Devil 1984 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Robyn Stacey Gorilla Skull 2005 C-print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Robyn Stacey The Brendels 2005 C-print Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Robyn Stacey Walnuts 2009 C-print Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
The Capital
Quarter of pleasures where the rich are always waiting,
Waiting expensively for miracles to happen,
Dim-lighted restaurant where lovers eat each other,
Waiting expensively for miracles to happen,
Dim-lighted restaurant where lovers eat each other,
Café where exiles have established a malicious village:
You with your charm and your apparatus have abolished
The strictness of winter and the spring's compulsion;
Far from your lights the outraged punitive father,
The dullness of mere obedience here is apparent.
So with orchestra and glances, soon you betray us
To belief in our infinite powers; and the innocent
Unobservant offender falls in a moment
Victim to his heart's invisible furies.
To belief in our infinite powers; and the innocent
Unobservant offender falls in a moment
Victim to his heart's invisible furies.
In unlighted streets you hide away the appalling;
Factories where lives are made for a temporary use
Like collars or chairs, rooms where the lonely are battered
Like collars or chairs, rooms where the lonely are battered
Slowly like pebbles into fortuitous shapes.
But the sky you illumine, your glow is visible far
Into the dark countryside, enormous and frozen,
Into the dark countryside, enormous and frozen,
Where, hinting at the forbidden like a wicked uncle,
Night after night to the farmer's children you beckon.
– W.H. Auden (1938)