Death of R.B.Kitaj
On October 31, 2007 the following statement appeared in The Australian newspaper:
With deep respect and sadness
we note the death, in Los Angeles, of
R.B.Kitaj, aged 74
An American artist of serious
importance and ongoing, joyful influence.
Peter Neilson
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ESSAY BY REX BUTLER, SENIOR LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, MEDIA STUDIES AND ART HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
4:37pm Sat. January 5th
The following is an essay which appeared in a folio of Peter Neilson's artwork published for the 2007 Sydney exhibition of Neilson's work at Australian Galleries,15 Roylston Street, PADDINGTON,NSW. ...
ONE STEP AHEAD Peter Neilson 2006
12:04am Fri. July 6th
And having read Adorno's position that art's impulse to objectivate the fleeting, not the permanent, may well run through the whole of its history;
And bowing low before Benjamin's final reading of Paul Klee's painting - Angelus Novus - as the 'angel of history' blown backwards into the future by a storm from Paradise while the chain of events we call 'progress' is seen by our angel as one single catastrophe which piles up wreckage and hurls it at the angel's feet; ...
7:25pm Thu. July 5th
ONWARDS TO OUR MEMORIES
3:04pm Sat. June 2nd
I was much intrigued by a passage in Robert Kaufmann's essay on(in part) modern lyric poetry: 'Poetry's Ethics? Theodor W. Adorno and Robert Duncan on Aesthetic Illuson and Sociopolitical Delusion' in New German Critique, Number 97, 2006(p 90)
Though many reasons have been advanced in support of lyric's fundamentally nonnarritive character, two have tended to predominate. ...
6:35pm Mon. December 25th
Peter Neilson
Peter Neilson
"The art of Peter Neilson is very much a product of urban Melbourne radicalism. He was born in East Melbourne in 1944 and grew up in the inner - Melbourne suburb of Essendon where he formed a life long affiliation with the local football club" - Dr Sasha Grishin 2002
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