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aCOMMENT on Nolan

Posted by on Apr 26, 2016 in aCOMMENT |

In 2011 the website aCOMMENT began publishing detailed and well researched essays on selected topics relating to Sidney Nolan.  Synopses of these essays, and links to them, follow. The most recent are listed first.     Nolan Centenary Update IV Posted on August 17, 2017 This fourth update announces two forthcoming exhibitions in Melbourne curated especially for the Centenary, the first such in Australia this year. Sidney Nolan: the Greek Series opens at the Hellenic Museum on 25...

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Imagining in Excited Reverie

Posted by on Apr 23, 2016 in Tributes |

Imagining in Excited Reverie

    In 1965 Sidney Nolan was invited to paint the cover for a centenary tribute to W. B. Yeats. It is one of almost eighty Nolan book covers. The book’s title  In Excited Reverie, is from a Yeats poem.         In his own centenary year 2017, what better title to pay tribute to Nolan’s fecund visual imagination than the full line by Yeats: “imagining in excited reverie.”1   Imagining in Excited Reverie is an online collection of prose and...

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