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ACOMMENT
''aCOMMENT'' was an early Australian modernist avant-garde literary "little magazine" of the 1940s published in Melbourne by Cecily Crozier. It ran to twenty-six, mostly quarterly, issues from 1940 to 1947. History Cecily Crozier, recently returned with her mother to Australia at the commencement of WW2, noted in 1940 that Melbourne had no avant-garde literary magazine. Despite wartime being inopportune for the launch of such a venture she, with her cousins Sylvia, Eila and Irvine Heber Green (1913–1997) in September that year published ''Comment,'' sometimes subtitled "A Journal of Poetry, Art, Literature and Social Comment" and soon retitled ''aCOMMENT''; the title set thus on each cover, with a small lower-case 'a' embedded within, most frequently, the all-capitals word 'COMMENT'. It appeared one month before its better known contemporary, ''Angry Penguins'', with which it shared many of its contributors, and which it outlived by a year. The mainstream press was slow t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecily Crozier
Cecily Medland Crozier (21 July 1911, Elsternwick – 2006, Adelaide) was an artist, poet and literary editor who co-founded ''aCOMMENT'', an avant-garde literary magazine in Melbourne. Biography Crozier was born in Elsternwick, on 21 July 1911 to Australian-born parents Robert Henry Crozier (1884–1939), a mining engineer, and Elsa McGillivray (1881–1957). She had two brothers, Laurie and Brian, two and five years her junior. The family was well-to-do and Crozier's presence at weddings as flower girl or bridesmaid was reported in the social pages of Melbourne newspapers. Her uncle was Frank R. Crozier, an Australian official war artist in WWI who was to continue a career as a painter after the war, and one of whose exhibitions was later organised by Crozier. The family traveled for her father's work, first in Burma, before a return to Melbourne, and then to London when she was about ten. Retreating from the London climate after two years her mother Elsa took the family to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ACOMMENT Cover July 1941
''aCOMMENT'' was an early Australian modernist avant-garde literary "little magazine" of the 1940s published in Melbourne by Cecily Crozier. It ran to twenty-six, mostly quarterly, issues from 1940 to 1947. History Cecily Crozier, recently returned with her mother to Australia at the commencement of WW2, noted in 1940 that Melbourne had no avant-garde literary magazine. Despite wartime being inopportune for the launch of such a venture she, with her cousins Sylvia, Eila and Irvine Heber Green (1913–1997) in September that year published ''Comment,'' sometimes subtitled "A Journal of Poetry, Art, Literature and Social Comment" and soon retitled ''aCOMMENT''; the title set thus on each cover, with a small lower-case 'a' embedded within, most frequently, the all-capitals word 'COMMENT'. It appeared one month before its better known contemporary, ''Angry Penguins'', with which it shared many of its contributors, and which it outlived by a year. The mainstream press was slow to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Harris (poet)
Maxwell Henley Harris AO (13 April 1921 – 13 January 1995), generally known as Max Harris, was an Australian poet, critic, columnist, commentator, publisher, and bookseller. Early life Harris was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and raised in the city of Mount Gambier, where his father was based as a travelling salesman. His early poetry was published in the children's pages of '' The Sunday Mail''. He continued to write poetry through his secondary schooling after winning a scholarship to St Peter's College, Adelaide. By the time he began attending the University of Adelaide, he was already known as a poet and intellectual. In 1941, he edited two editions of the student newspaper ''On Dit''. Angry Penguins Harris's passion for poetry and modernism were driving forces behind the creation in 1940 of a literary journal called ''Angry Penguins''. His co-founders were D.B. "Sam" Kerr, Paul G. Pfeiffer and Geoffrey Dutton. The first issue attracted the interest of Melbourne law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Avant-garde Magazines
This is a list of magazines which contain avant-garde material and content. Notable avant-garde magazines include: {{Compact ToC, center=yes, align=center, top=no, num=yes, refs=yes, e=E, i=I, u=U, y=Y, z=Z 0–9 *'' 3:AM Magazine'' (2000–), Paris *'' 291'' (1915–1916), New York City *'' 391'' (1917–1924), Barcelona A *''aCOMMENT'' (1940–1947), Melbourne *''Al Adab'' (1953–2012), Beirut *'' Akasztott Ember'' (1922–1923), Vienna *''Algol'' (1947), Catalonia * '' Apollon'' (1909–1917), St. Petersburg *''Avant-Garde'' (1968–1971), New York City B * ''Bauhaus'' (1926–1931), Germany *''Black Music'' (1973–1984), United Kingdom C *'' Ça Ire'' (1920–1923), Antwerp D *''Dau al set'' (1948–1951), Catalonia *''Denver Quarterly'' (1966–), Denver F *''Frigidaire'' (1980–2008), Rome G *''La Gaceta Literaria'' (1927–1932), Madrid *''Galerie 68'' (1968–1971), Cairo H *''Helhesten'' (1941–1944), Copenhagen J *''La Jeune Belgique'' (1880–1897), Bruss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modernism
Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, and social organization which reflected the newly emerging industrial society, industrial world, including features such as urbanization, architecture, new technologies, and war. Artists attempted to depart from traditional forms of art, which they considered outdated or obsolete. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it New" was the touchstone of the movement's approach. Modernist innovations included abstract art, the stream-of-consciousness novel, montage (filmmaking), montage cinema, atonal and twelve-tone music, divisionist painting and modern architecture. Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of Realism (arts), realism and made use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Shapiro
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 for his collection ''V-Letter and Other Poems''. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. Born and initially raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Shapiro served in the Pacific Theater as a United States Army company clerk during World War II. Biography Karl Shapiro was born and initially raised in Baltimore, Maryland. After spending much of his childhood and adolescence in Chicago, Illinois, the family returned to Baltimore, where he completed his secondary education at Baltimore City College. He briefly attended the University of Virginia during the 1932-1933 academic year, and immortalized it in a scathing poem called "University", which noted that "to hurt the Negro and avoid the Jew is the curriculum." His first volume of poetry was published by a family friend at the behest of his uncle in 1935. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Keon
Michael Keon (19 October 1918 – 22 May 2006) was an Australian political journalist and author. His articles and books mainly focus on Asian politics and the military actions that surround the changes and transitions in political power. Biography Born James Michael Keon in Melbourne, Victoria. he married Elizabeth Marcos, a member of the Philippine political family, and sister of Ferdinand Marcos. Their son is politician Michael Marcos Keon. During World War II Keon worked for the Department of Information (D.O.I.), a branch of the Australian Government. In November 1945 he and fellow journalist Geoffrey Sawer broadcast a series of three short-wave radio reports criticizing the policies of the Great Britain, the United States, and the Dutch (who controlled much of the country) of their activities in Indonesia, and their hypocrisy (mainly the U.S.) in ignoring the plight of the country and the Indonesian people. The broadcasts caused a backlash in that one arm of the gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Tucker (artist)
Albert Lee Tucker (29 December 1914 – 23 October 1999) was an Australian artist and member of the Heide Circle, a group of modernist artists and writers associated with Heide, the Melbourne home of art patrons John and Sunday Reed. Along with Heide Circle members such as Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd, Tucker became associated with the Angry Penguins art movement, named after a publication founded by poet Max Harris and published by the Reeds. Early life and education Tucker left school at 14 to help support his family and had no formal art training, but obtained work as a house painter, cartoonist and commercial illustrator, in an advertising agency before joining the commercial artist John Vickery. For seven years he attended the Victorian Artists' Society evening life drawing class three nights a week."Alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linocut
Linocut, also known as lino print, lino printing or linoleum art, is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for a relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge, with the raised (uncarved) areas representing a reversal (mirror image) of the parts to show printed. The linoleum sheet is inked with a roller (called a brayer), and then impressed onto paper or fabric. The actual printing can be done by hand or with a printing press. Technique Since the material being carved has no directional grain and does not tend to split, it is easier to obtain certain artistic effects with lino than with most woods, although the resultant prints lack the often angular grainy character of woodcuts and engravings. Lino is generally diced, much easier to cut than wood, especially when heated, but the pressure of the printing process degrades the plate faster and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodcut
Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that the artist cuts away carry no ink, while characters or images at surface level carry the ink to produce the print. The block is cut along the wood grain (unlike wood engraving, where the block is cut in the end-grain). The surface is covered with ink by rolling over the surface with an ink-covered roller (brayer), leaving ink upon the flat surface but not in the non-printing areas. Multiple colors can be printed by keying the paper to a frame around the woodblocks (using a different block for each color). The art of carving the woodcut can be called "xylography", but this is rarely used in English for images alone, although that and "xylographic" are used in connection with block books, which are small books containing text and images in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aerial Reconnaissance
Aerial reconnaissance is reconnaissance for a military or strategic purpose that is conducted using reconnaissance aircraft. The role of reconnaissance can fulfil a variety of requirements including artillery spotting, the collection of imagery intelligence, and the observation of enemy maneuvers. History Early developments After the French Revolution, the new rulers became interested in using the balloon to observe enemy manoeuvres and appointed scientist Charles Coutelle to conduct studies using the balloon ''L'Entreprenant'', the first military reconnaissance aircraft. The balloon found its first use in the 1794 conflict with Austria, where in the Battle of Fleurus they gathered information. Moreover, the presence of the balloon had a demoralizing effect on the Austrian troops, which improved the likelihood of victory for the French troops. To operate such balloons, a new unit of the French military, the French Aerostatic Corps, was established; this organisatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
