ACOMMENT
''aCOMMENT'' was an early Australian modernist List of avant-garde magazines, 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. Th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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List Of Avant-garde Magazines
This is a list of magazines which contain avant-garde material and content. One of their common characteristics was their unpredictable appearance. Notable avant-garde magazines include: 0–9 *''3:AM Magazine'' (2000–), Paris *''291 (magazine), 291'' (1915–1916), New York City *''391 (magazine), 391'' (1917–1924), Barcelona A *''aCOMMENT'' (1940–1947), Melbourne *''Al Adab'' (1953–2012), Beirut *''Akasztott Ember'' (1922–1923), Vienna *''Algol (magazine), Algol'' (1947), Catalonia * ''Apollon (magazine), Apollon'' (1909–1917), St. Petersburg *''Der Ararat'' (1918–1921), Munich *''Avant-Garde (magazine), Avant-Garde'' (1968–1971), New York City B * ''Bauhaus (magazine), Bauhaus'' (1926–1931), Germany *''Black Music (magazine), Black Music'' (1973–1984), United Kingdom C *''Cantrills Filmnotes'' (1971–2000), Melbourne *''Cuadernos'' (1953–1965), Paris *''Ça Ira (review), Ça Ira'' (1920–1923), Antwerp D *''Dau al set (magazine), Dau al set'' ( ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 Melbo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eric Thake
Eric Prentice Anchor Thake (8 June 1904 – 3 November 1982) was an Australian artist, designer, painter, printmaker and war artist. His 1972 Christmas card ''An Opera House in Every Home,'' a humorous take on Jørn Utzon's World Heritage-listed building is a well-known work. Early life Thake was born in Auburn, Melbourne, on 8 June 1904, the only child of Emily Lockwood (née Doran) and Henry Thake, dairyman. Educated at Auburn Primary School, at age fourteen at the end of WW1 he was apprenticed to a process engraving firm Patterson Shugg. He enrolled in 1921 at the Drawing School of the National Gallery of Victoria under traditionalist painter W. B. McInnes, then went on to study painting and drawing part-time with the modernist Melbourne artist George Bell from 1925 to 1928. In 1935 he married Grace Bessie Doris Godfrey. Career From June 1930 Thake showed with 'The Embryos,' a group that included Raymond Lindsay, a son of Norman Lindsay, Constance Parkin (then the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Keon
Michael Keon Sr. (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 Australian Department of Information. In November 1945 he and fellow journalist Geoffrey Sawer broadcast a series of three short-wave radio reports criticizing the policies of the United Kingdom, 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 government was criticizing another, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 Museum of Modern Art, Heide, the Melbourne home of art patrons John Reed (art patron), 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 (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 (artist), John Vickery. For seven years he attended the Victorian Artists' Society evening life drawing class three nights a week. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tipped-in Page
In the book trade, a tipped-in page or tipped-in plate is a page that is printed separately from the main text of the book, but attached to the book. The page may be glued onto a regular page or even bound along with the other pages. There are various reasons for tipped-in-pages, including photographic prints and reviews. Description A tipped-in page or, if it is an illustration, tipped-in plate, is a page that is printed separately from the main text of the book, but attached to the book. A tipped-in page may be glued onto a regular page, or even bound along with the other pages. It is often printed on a different kind of paper, using a different printing process, and of a different format than a regular page. Tipped-in pages that are glued to a bound page on its inner side may be called paste ins. Some authors include loose pages inserted into a book as tipped-in, but in this case, it is usually called an insert instead. Tissue guard A tissue guard is a tipped-in page cons ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Linocut
Linocut, also known as lino print, lino printing or linoleum art, is a printmaking technique, a variant of relief printing in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for a relief printing, relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or Chisel#Gouge, 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. Multi-color linocuts can be made by successively printing with a different block for each color as in a color woodcut, as the artists of the Grosvenor School frequently did. As Pablo Picasso demonstrated, such prints can also be achieved using a single piece of linoleum in what is called the "reductive" print method. Essentially, after each successive color is imprinted onto the paper ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 colours can be printed by keying the paper to a frame around the woodblocks (using a different block for each colour). The art of carving the woodcut can be called ''xylography'', but this is rarely used in English for images alone, although that term and ''xylographic'' are used in connection with block books, which are small books containing text ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aerial Reconnaissance
Aerial reconnaissance is reconnaissance for a military or Strategy, strategic purpose that is conducted using reconnaissance aircraft. The role of reconnaissance can fulfil a variety of requirements including Artillery observer, 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 (aircraft), balloon to observe enemy manoeuvres and appointed scientist Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle, Charles Coutelle to conduct studies using the balloon ''L'Entreprenant'', the first military reconnaissance aircraft. The balloon found its first use in the French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1794, 1794 conflict with Austria, where in the Battle of Fleurus (1794), 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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Royal Australian Air Force
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is the principal Air force, aerial warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Army. Constitutionally the Governor-General of Australia, governor-general of Australia is the de jure commander-in-chief of the Australian Defence Force. The Royal Australian Air Force is commanded by the Chief of Air Force (Australia), Chief of Air Force (CAF), who is subordinate to the Chief of the Defence Force (Australia), Chief of the Defence Force (CDF). The CAF is also directly responsible to the Minister for Defence (Australia), Minister for Defence, with the Department of Defence (Australia), Department of Defence administering the ADF and the Air Force. Formed in March 1921, as the Australian Air Force, through the separation of the Australian Air Corps from the Army in January 1920, which in turn amalgamated the separate aerial services of both the Army and Navy. It d ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |