Australians Aware; Poems & paintings of today, selected by Rodney Hall

Abstract

Australians Aware is a rare thing. A successful combination of recent works in verbal and visual art forms. Rare, because although the combination is not new, the success is. The last few years have produced several grisly examples of kitsch purporting to combine poetry with painting. This one is good. Perhaps precisely because it has no theme or ideology, but is simply a pleasant ramble through the works of painters, printers and poets presently or recently active in Australia.