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| Paul Worstead Settlement Dance: Bopcats 1981 screenprint (poster) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Vivonne Thwaites In the Office #2 1981 screenprint Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Richard Stringer Milton Park 1981 gelatin silver print Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
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| John Scurry All the Things You Are 1981 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Gareth Sansom Du hast keine chance, nutze sie 1981 mixed media on panels (triptych) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Ed Pien Nude 1981 watercolor on paper Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Ian North Canberra Suite #17 1981 C-print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Ann Newmarch Self Portrait 1981 photo-etching Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Robert Motherwell Art 1981 Chicago Print 1981 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Stephen Livick Middle America 1981 gum bichromate print Museum London, Ontario |
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| Stephen Livick Middle America 1981 gum bichromate print Museum London, Ontario |
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| Louise Abbott Stonecarver on Iona in the Hebrides 1981 gelatin silver print Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec |
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| Frank Auerbach Lucian Freud 1981 etching Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Julia Church Canberra Youth Theatre's Troupe presents Treatment 1981 screenprint (proof of poster before lettering) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Anonymous Chinese Artist Achieve the Four Modernizations 1981 lithograph (poster) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Anonymous Australian Artist Etching Class 1981 screenprint (poster) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Sonnets from China
XII
Here war is harmless like a monument:
A telephone is talking to a man;
Flags on a map declare that troops were sent;
A boy brings milk in bowls. There is a plan
For living men in terror of their lives,
Who thirst at nine who were to thirst at noon,
Who can be lost and are, who miss their wives
And, unlike an idea, can die too soon.
Yet ideas can be true, although men die:
For we have seen a myriad faces
Ecstatic from one lie,
And maps can really point to places
Where life is evil now.
Nanking. Dachau.
– W.H. Auden (1938)