Sub-fonds 4: Norman Lindsay essays on art and literature, [between 1942? and 1953?]

MLMSS 10394

sub-fonds

[between 1942? and 1953?]

Textual Records, Clippings

9640659

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - typescript

Thirteen typescript essays with manuscript corrections in Lindsay’s hand titled 'Munnings', 'Paint and primitivism', 'An adult illusion', 'The medium of watercolour', 'Norman Douglas', 'Tamed man and lawless', 'Sitwell and Flagg', 'In search of a villain', 'Murder mysteries', 'Completing the circle', 'The pea pickers', 'An emetic in oil paint', 'Emotions and morals'. Also included are cuttings from The Bulletin's Red Page of another two essays pasted on sheets of paper and titled 'Sinclair Lewis' and 'Kipling and Maugham'.

In ‘Tamed Man and Lawless’ Lindsay discusses the central resolve in Douglas Stewart’s verse drama, Ned Kelly. He strongly disapproves of an exhibition of modern French painting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in an essay titled ‘An Emetic in Oil Paint’. Murder mysteries as a genre of literature also receive his disapproval. His thoughts on contemporary art, autobiographies, and the medium of watercolour are also included, as well as essays on artist Alfred Munnings and writers Charles Dickens, Wyndham Lewis, William Gaunt and Osbert Sitwell. There is also an enthusiastic review of The Pea Pickers by Eve Langley.

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Date based on publication dates of essays in The Bulletin between 1942 and 1953.