Robert Menzies and the Visual Arts
Speaker(s): Judith Pugh Date: 2016-10-18 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Streets), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm
Robert Menzies and the Visual Arts
Australia’s Commonwealth government has been involved in the arts virtually from federation. The visual arts especially attracted government involvement with the 1912 Fisher Government appointment of a Commonwealth Art Advisory Board which grew from strength to strength in the post-war Menzies era. Contrary to what many historians have assumed, Australia’s long serving Prime Minister Robert [...]
Clifton Pugh: Art and Politics in the 1970s
Judith Pugh is an art dealer and award winning writer. She writes journalism, essays and poetry (some of which has been set to music by the composer Philip Nunn). Her recent memoir Unstill Life (Allen & Unwin) is about social change and politics in the 1970s and it describes the artworld of the time, in [...]
Clifton Pugh: Art and Politics in the 1970s
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Judith Pugh Date: 2009-03-10 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm)