Journal article
Approp ... A manner proper to the circumstances
Art monthly Australia, (335), pp.96-97
04/2023
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Abstract
Appropriately for a book by a visual artist/writer, Imants Tillers's Credo is beautifully designed (by Jenny Grigg): it looks small, spare, neat; has a sense of breathing space from the wide margins on the pages, the modernity of the Tiempos Regular font and the brevity of the essays; and its cover is a pale cultured-butter colour with embossed gold (reminiscent perhaps of Eastern European Christian art iconography) for title, publisher's logo and author's name. [...]potential provocations include the following: simulation (apropos of Giorgio de Chirico's paintings) is 'the quintessential quality of Australian life and culture', as in Australia 'the experience of works of art through mechanical reproduction always precedes their direct experience'; 'There can be no doubt that the only original contribution Australia has made to the history of world art in the twentieth century is Australian Indigenous art ... While Tillers notes in his preface-as-overture that there is 'no overarching theme, no grand narrative' in these collected fragments, the dissection of Australian painting, and more broadly Australian culture, and the discussion of his own work process (quoting, repeating, masking) capture a reader in a to-and-fro journey between interconnections which are most often repetitions, but which are more than that latter word implies - that is, the repetition expands on the thing or it has the thing reviewed in a different context, much like his (re)use of his own canvas-board paintings.
Details
- Title
- Approp ... A manner proper to the circumstances
- Creators
- Moya Costello - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Art monthly Australia, (335), pp.96-97
- Publisher
- Art Monthly Australia
- Identifiers
- 991013093606802368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article