'Addled art' by Lionel Lindsay, 1942

MLMSS 8372

fonds

1942

971153

0.05 metres of textual material (one folder) - Published work

Sir Lionel Arthur (1874-1961), artist and writer, was born at Creswick, Victoria.
Lindsay taught himself etching and engraving in the 1890s while a student, immediately prior to his first trip to Spain and England. On his return to Australia he settled in Sydney as a freelance artist and journalist, contributing to the Bulletin and other magazines and newspapers. Master of a good prose style, Lindsay wrote lucidly and generously about the art he admired. But his taste did not extend beyond Post-Impressionism, and he became in his later years a virulent opponent of modernism, expressing his sense of outrage in Addled Art (1942).
Lindsay became a Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and was knighted for his services to Australian art in 1941. Resident at Wahroonga, Lionel Lindsay died at Hornsby on 22 May 1961

Reference:
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lindsay-sir-lionel-arthur-7756

This book appears to have been Lindsay's own copy - it has been signed by him and contains his bookplate. Glued into the front and back of the book are news-cuttings of reviews of the book. On the verso of the back cover a postcard of congratulations has been glued in - the signature is indecipherable.
Two loose, typescript, poems are also included; "Surrealists", 18 February, 1938, and "Granny and the Gigolo", n.d.

Research & study copies allowed

Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1942. xvi, 65 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Lionel Lindsay's manuscript of 'Granny the Gigolo', 1940, is at MLMSS 6474/1/15.
Copies of "Addled art" are held in ML printed books collection at ML759/L and ML759.06/2; and in the Dixson Library printed collection at DL 94/30.