Angry Penguins Broadsheet 2

Editor/publisher: Max Harris
Editor: James McGuire
Editor: Sidney Nolan
Categories: Reference / Essays, Journal

Reference no.:R/H/NL/APB/46.02 Place/Shelf:3DL

Book title:	Angry Penguins Broadsheet 2
Published by:	Reed & Harris
Year made:	1946
Place made:	Australia
Original:	Yes
Dimensions:	190 x 250
Binder:	commercial binding
Physical description:	stapled booklet
Medium:	essays, commentary
Further information:
"presents A Young Woman Smiling". "In a now-famous phrase from his last 'Meanjin Papers' Editorial, Clem Christesen wrote that 'The tide is beginning to set against the esoteric and obscure'. That in itself is prophetic because the tide is also setting against such phrases. The nature and role of the obscure, the esoteric, have long been known, and accepted in the great art history... Goethe, Chapman, Rilke, Hopkins. To declare war against 'obscurity' in art is just as stupid and parochial as to declare war against 'clarity'..." (from the Editorial)