The Darkening Ecliptic
Poet: Ern Malley
Illustrator: Sidney Nolan
Categories: Bookwork / Illustrated Books, Offset Books, Poetry/Proses/Text Works
Reference no.:NL/L/Mal.E-Nol.S/74.00 Place/Shelf:2BR
| Book title: | The Darkening Ecliptic |
| Published by: | R Alistair McAlpine, London |
| Year made: | 1974 |
| Place made: | UK |
| Original: | Yes |
| Edition: (No. in Edition) |
1000 () |
| Dimensions: | 245 x 315 |
| Binder: | commercial binding |
| Physical description: | stitched case binding, hard cover, dust jacket |
| Medium: | poems, illustrations |
| Further information: | |
| "Sidney Nolan has always been highly sensitive to the correspondence between poetry and painting, and his appreciation of the ambiguous and mysterious effects obtained by the conjunction of disparate realities in the art of certain European poets and painters predisposed him to approve of some of the remedies to be found in the Ern Malley poems for curing banalities of meaning and environment.
"[In 1944] the poems [by Ern Malley] were published in Melbourne, and Max Harris was prosecuted in the same year in Adelaide. Sidney Nolan celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of these events in his exhibition held in Adelaide early in 1974. At the invitation of the Art Gallery of South Australia he contributed a retrospective exhibition of his work to the 1974 Adelaide Festival, and included a group of large coloured drawings in which he re-affirmed his interest in the poems. Intended as a continuation of the correspondence between the poems and some of his early paintings, they now appropriately decorate [this] the first English edition of the Ern Malley poems." Robert Melville, from the Foreword |
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| Poet: | Ern Malley () |
| Illustrator: | Sidney Nolan () |
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