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Modernism and the novelty trap

Giles Auty considers the purchase of Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles by the National Gallery of Australia 404 Not Found in Canberra in 1973 and what such an acquisition signifies.

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A few months back, a rash of articles appeared in the press which commemorated

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the dismissal of the Whitlam government thirty years ago and commented on the continuing sense of grievance felt by his […]

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Lament for a lost, semi-innocent world: Giles Auty remembers St Ives, half a century on from when he first painted there

I paid a first visit to St. Ives in the

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late 1950s and will never forget my first glimpse of the town 404 Not Found from the hill

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above the railway station. For someone to whom the word ‘sea’ had hitherto largely meant the pebbly beaches and endless mudflats of the coast of East Kent, the turquoise water, dazzling white sands and rows […]