Angry Penguins
Angry Penguins was an art and literary journal founded in 1940 by
Origins and ethos
The precursor to the Angry Penguins magazine, Phoenix, was published at the University of Adelaide with funds from the University Union. Funding was withdrawn in 1940 following a change in leadership. Phoenix was no longer published, but carried on as Angry Penguins under the Arts Association, with funding from J.I.M. Stewart and Charles Jury, and others.[1][2]
Angry Penguins was first published in the
The magazine's main Adelaide rival was the
The Angry Penguins artists were early Australian exponents of surrealism and expressionism, and included John Perceval, Guy Gray Smith, Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Danila Vassilieff, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester.
The Ern Malley hoax
Their interest in Surrealism led
Criticism
The Communist Party of Australia publicly criticized Angry Penguins. In the August 1944 issue of the Communist Review, to support his assertion that the magazine "has nothing to offer to Australian art, and that its effect will be to destroy, not raise Australian standards"[7] Vic O'Connor writes that editors of cultural publications are responsible for fostering cultural development as a part of the overall advancement of "standards of social and economic life in Australia", and that the editors of Angry Penguins are "completely indifferent" to this.[7]
Legacy and influence
The Angry Penguins art movement was surveyed in the 1988 exhibition Angry Penguins and Realist Painting in Melbourne in the 1940s, held at the Hayward Gallery in London.[8] In the exhibition's catalogue, English novelist C. P. Snow is quoted as saying that the Angry Penguins movement "was probably the last flowering of a 'national' modernism that a completely internationalised world of the arts was likely to see".[9]
Cultural references
- Ern Malley hoax. It is a first-person narrative from the point of view of a young woman editing a literary magazine who encounters the perpetrator of the hoax (called Bob McCorkle, not Ern Malley, in the story) after many years. Carey is more interested in the idea of "magical thinking" than a literal recount; the Ern Malley character is a flesh-and-blood person who haunts his "creator."[11]
- In Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013),[12] the main character, Dorrigo Evans, meets the love of his life at the launch of Angry Penguins.
See also
- Ern Malley
- Alfred Tipper
- Museum of Modern Art Australia
- John Reed
- Heidi Circle
- 1944 in Australian Literature
- Sokal affair
References
- OCLC 440611987.
- ^ Hoskin, Cheryl (2013). ""A Genius About the Place": The Phoenix Magazine and Australian modernism" (PDF). Paper Presented at South Australian History Festival Exhibition, May 2013. – via Adelaide University.
- ^ Nick Harvey; et al. "A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide 1876-2012" (PDF). University of Adelaide. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ISBN 0702228109, p. 86
- S2CID 144559591.
- Gale A75088915.
- ^ a b O'Connor, Vic. "A Criticism of Adelaide's 'Angry Penguins.'" The Communist Review. August 1944. https://www.marxists.org/history/australia/comintern/sections/australia/1944/adelaide.htm
- ^ Keon, Michael (1 August 1989). "Angry Penguins at home and abroad", The Age.
- ISBN 1853320218.[page needed]
- ISBN 978-1-74051-246-6
- ^ Moran, Jennifer (2003) Carey's powerful plea for novel as act of imagination, The Canberra Times, 21 August 2003, p. 3
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