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AUGUST 2009 - FEBRUARY 2010 ISSUE 77AUSTRALIA $16.95 NZ $20.95SINGAPORE $20.00 UK £7.00
US $13.00 €10.50
a biannual magazine for col lectors of mater ia l cul ture
ART IN IRANINSIGHTS INTO A COUNTRY,
ITS HERITAGE AND CHALLENGES
PLANNING A COLLECTINGEXCURSION TO THE UK
WHAT TO EXPECT
RECENT RELEASESESSENTIAL ADDITIONS TO
A COLLECTING LIBRARY
FOLK ART ACROSS THE CONTINENTS
FRESH PERSPECTIVES
ACQUISITIONS130 Bugla ma’a’agll, prehistoric stone mortar
National Gallery of Australia
132 South Indian or Sri Lankan Female figure, c. 18th-19th century
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
134 Joseph Hoffmann, Vase, c. 1919
National Gallery of Victoria
135 Li Lihong, McDonald’s M, 2007
Hamilton Art Gallery
136 Hunt & Roskell, Presentation Vase, 1864
Queensland Art Gallery
138 Cabinet card portraits, c. 1900
National Gallery of Australia
140 Sir William Dargie, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second, 1954
National Museum of Australia
142 Karl Bertsch, Table and armchair, c. 1910
National Gallery of Victoria
144 Penleigh Boyd: Three watercolours
Australian War Memorial
146 Historical movie poster, c. 1928
Australian National Maritime Museum
148 Iso Rae: art behind the front lines, 1915
Australian War Memorial
152 AROUND THE AUCTIONSAuction highlights from the major houses
ART26 Trompe l’oeil: art as illusion
Annamaria Giusti
32 Contemporary art in Iran
Helen Musa
48 The Conversation Piece: fashionable life
in the 17th and 18th centuries
Desmond Shawe-Taylor
102 Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy of Arts
Elspeth Moncrieff
112 Preparing an exhibition: a personal appreciation
Ian A C Dejardin
62 EXHIBITION REVIEWVenice Biennale 2009
Vivienne Sharpe and Tim McCormick
ARTNEWS82 A review of the UK’s arts fairs
Duncan Phillips
88 A selection of international events to diarise
167 CONTRIBUTORS
DECORATIVE ART AND DESIGN70 American folk art in Britain
Laura Beresford
78 The renaissance of contemporary jewellery in Britain
Corinne Julius
84 Marine ivory and scrimshaw
Christopher Proudlove
106 Chanukah lamps from North Africa
Melody Amsel-Arieli
124 The Thomson Collection of ship models
Simon Stephens
4 EDITORIAL
HERITAGE56 The North-West Passage
Claire Warrior
74 National Art Gallery for Singapore
Helen Musa
168 INDEX OF ADVERTISERS
LIBRIS12 Hand written illuminated prayer books from Bohemia and Moravia
Jana Vytrhlik
66 The art of book conservation
Julie Sommerfeldt
116 Book Review: The Art and Life of Josef Herman
Andrew Lambrith
Recent Releases119 China at the Court of the Emperors: Unknown masterpieces
120 Van Dyck & Britain
121 A Journey into the World of the Ottomans:
The art of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737)
122 Voices of Contemporary Glass
123 Medals of Dishonour
PHOTOGRAPHY10 John Gollings, New Guinea Suite, 1973-74
Gael Newton
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COVERJohn Gollings (Australian b. 1944), New Guinea suite,1973-74, ed 1/3 printed 2006-07; 60 colour photographs,colour pigment inkjet on paper, 61 x 100 cm. National Gallery of Australia. Gift of John Gollings 2008
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This work is from the National
Gallery of Australia’s recent
acquisition of John Gollings’ New
Guinea Suite, photographs of Papua
New Guinean 1973-74 annual cultural
shows called ‘sing sings,’ that
dramatically capture traditional songs,
music and dance, ceremonial clothing
and body decorations. Gollings, an
architecture student turned professional
photographer, acting on suggestions by
his former lecturer Professor Neville
Quarry, went to Papua New Guinea to
photograph the dance styles and body
decorations at sing sings. Gollings
stayed with parents of Quarry’s Papuan
students, seeing their preparations and
travelling with them to the shows.
The ‘shows’ are an artificial construct
of Australian patrol officers in the 1950s,
as a method of integration and
pacification. They continue to be
massive, well attended events. The
theatricality and vitality of ancient
cultural practices manifest in the
performances inspired Gollings. Using
an array of camera and film
technologies he imparted an edgy,
expressive and interpretive character to
images rather than detailed
ethnographic reportage.
Melpa people have a patrilineal culture,
living in highlands villages separated by
valleys and steep mountain ridges.
Communication between villages
developed through yodelling requests,
directions, commands and challenges,
yodelled back and forth by men across a
ravine or a ridge, without visual contact,
using vantage points such as atop the
men’s houses, captured by Gollings.
Traditional items displayed include men’s
wigs of human hair, elaborate
headdresses decorated with feathers and
shells, body painting using local dyes
mixed with pig fat, pig tusk jewellery,
holding stone axes and digging sticks.
The quest for an interpretative,
animated and dramatic realisation would
shape Gollings’ subsequent career,
almost four decades of photographing
ancient and modern architecture across
Australia, Asia and America. Sally Ingleton’s
documentary, John Gollings Eye for
Architecture launched at the Melbourne
International Film Festival in August.
photography
John Gollings
New Guinea suite, 1973-74
1 John Gollings (Australian b. 1944), NewGuinea suite, 1973-74, ed 1/3 printed 2006-07; 60 colour photographs, colour pigmentinkjet on paper, 61 x 100 cm. National Galleryof Australia. Gift of John Gollings 2008
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Gollings’ photographs of Papua New Guinean 1973-74 annual cultural shows called ‘sing
sings,’ were artistic interpretations of the traditional songs, music and dance, ceremonial
clothing and body decorations, rather than ethnomusicological research images.
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JANA VYTRHLIK
Illuminated manuscripts have a long
history in European culture. Scriptoria
(scribe’s workshops) flourished at the
end of the fourteenth and early fifteenth
century in and adjacent to monasteries.
The richly decorated miniature Catholic
libris
Rescued from obscurity: hand written, illuminated prayer books
from Bohemia and Moravia
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Unique to rural Bohemia and Moravia was the tradition of
hand transcribed miniature prayer books. Undertaken by non-
professionals and translated into Czech and German, a
significant collection dating from the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries provides important insights into folk art
traditions of the region
1 Spiritual Treasure or Catholic Prayers…, 1760, 19. x 12.2 cm,160 pp. This is an example of an original approach todecoration, not influenced by printed work
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HELEN MUSA
The word Fajr carries its own
mystery. It literally translates from
Farsi and Arabic as ‘dawn,’ the dawn of
the Revolution. Metaphorically, it
indicates the awakening of a national art
movement in Iran. The newcomer in a
group of such arts festivals, this one
now joins the Fajr International Film
Festival and the Fajr International
Theatre Festival to make a
triumphant triumvirate.
Not that there was a vacuum before
the Ayatollah Khomeini stepped off the
plane from Paris thirty years ago to
spearhead the Islamic revolution.
One thing that strikes you
immediately in Iran is a deeply-
embedded love of culture and the arts
that goes back to the Achaemenid
Empire and far beyond. The average
Iranian can be relied upon to throw
stanzas from the poets Hafiz and Rumi
into a casual conversation—this is one
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art
Attending a conference and festival in Tehran marking thirty years of Islamic revolutionary art
was always bound to throw up a few conundrums and mysteries, and so it proved to be
during February when I joined a group of Australian, French, and German writers to present a
paper at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art’s Fajr celebration of contemporary art. The
aspirations of Iranian artists now seem all the more elusive following post election unrest.
Fajr festival and conference at theTEHRAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Art in Iran:
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