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Multisport Dreaming: The Foundations Of Triathlon In Australia, Jane Hunt
Multisport Dreaming: The Foundations Of Triathlon In Australia, Jane Hunt
Jane Hunt
The sport of triathlon has evolved considerably since the first triathlon-like events were held in Australia in 1980 and 1981. The Australian triathlon journey is full of triumphs. Australia hosted the first Olympic triathlon and the first fully professional race series, and produced wave after wave of age group and elite ITU and Ironman world champions. Australia’s triathlon past is also full of drama, controversy and tragedy. Triathlon has grown so much in such a short time, but in reality, very little is known about the sport’s past. Multisport Dreaming captures a period in time that few remember and documents …
Trafficking Modernities: Gender And Cultural Authority In The Case Of The Woman Organist, Lilian Frost, Jane Hunt
Jane Hunt
According to the local press, Frost as both soloist and accompanist on piano and organ was reported to exhibit a musical maturity beyond her years, and stamina considered unusual for a 'young lady', but clearly this was problematic. Jealous minded organists of the sterner sex are apt to say that ladies cannot play the organ; but the meritorious performance by Miss Frost dispels that illusion; for here is a lady who can play the organ. This appeared to provoke a shift in reportage on Frost's performances: whereas previously newspaper reports repeated an established complimentary four-lined riff, detailed reviews soon replaced …
The 'Intrusion Of Women Painters': Ethel Anderson, Modern Art And Gendered Modernities In Interwar Sydney, Australia, Jane Hunt
Jane Hunt
In the interwar period in Sydney, Australia, male art gallery trustees, directors, and art schoolteachers objected to female advocacy and practice of artistic responsiveness to the modern. The dialogue between these two parties has often been interpreted in terms of a margin/centre dichotomy. Closer examination of the case of Ethel Anderson suggests that this model is inadequate. She demonstrated the transnationally apparent predilection of women to infusing civic cultures with the fleeting and every day, thus inverting the spatial cues to cultural authority and presenting a gendered challenge to institutionalised, masculine notions of cultural authority.
Daphne Mayo’S Self-Portrait: Australian Sculptor; Experiment With Colour; Or Woman With Toothache?, Jane Hunt
Daphne Mayo’S Self-Portrait: Australian Sculptor; Experiment With Colour; Or Woman With Toothache?, Jane Hunt
Jane Hunt
A self-portrait by Australian sculptor Daphne Mayo, housed, unframed, in an art file in the University of Queensland’s Fryer Library is one of those images that can lead to ever-expanding circles of research and cross-disciplinary reading. Daphne Mayo was a key Australian sculptor of the mid-twentieth century, the creator of numerous prominent pieces of public art, and a woman who contributed significantly to the shaping of the Queensland Public art collection during the same period. There are a number of ways to analyse Mayo's body of work as a whole – as an artist herself in terms of her views, …
Daphne Mayo Collection, Jane Hunt
Art Worthy Of The State: Daphne Mayo And Her Cultural Mission, Jane Hunt
Art Worthy Of The State: Daphne Mayo And Her Cultural Mission, Jane Hunt
Jane Hunt
The Queensland sculptor, Daphne Mayo, believed in and exercised what might be regarded as a form of ‘cultural authority’, in an Arnoldian sense. She distinguished between philistines (although she didn’t necessarily use that term), and those who possessed artistic ‘sensibilities’. Those who possessed such knowledge, appreciation and sensibility were worthy of determining, in the state of Queensland, what was worthy of its state collection of fine arts. In both the 1930s and 1960s when she worked closely with them, she viewed the majority of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Queensland Art Gallery as laymen who were …
Finding A Place For Women In Australian Cultural History: Female Cultural Activism In Sydney, 1900-1940, Jane Hunt
Jane Hunt
With only a few exceptions, the endeavours of culturally active women appear as irrelevant or marginal to the history of Australian culture. Australian cultural historiography dwells on antithetic relationships, whether between cultural-political elites, gendered spaces and practices, or elitist and popular culture. However, this historical preoccupation with dichotomous notions of class, gender, and culture has deflected attention from other aspects of the struggle to define culture. Cultural definitions were far from fixed for most of the first half of the twentieth century in Australia. Negotiations on what constituted appropriate cultural form, content, and practice are apparent inside and outside establishment …
“Fellowing” Women: Sydney Women Writers And The Organisational Impulse, Jane Hunt
“Fellowing” Women: Sydney Women Writers And The Organisational Impulse, Jane Hunt
Jane Hunt
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“Victors” And “Victims”: Men, Women, Modernism And Art In Australia, Jane Hunt
“Victors” And “Victims”: Men, Women, Modernism And Art In Australia, Jane Hunt
Jane Hunt
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It is relatively easy to misread the history of artistic modernism in Australia. Glance at a handful of key sources, and they all seem to tell the story of a battle: in the years between the two world wars the Australian art establishment was run by a band of big bad traditionalists - art historian Bernard Smith likens them to the priests of Leviticus - who were at first irritated and later seriously threatened by a bunch of critical young innovators.