June 2013 Volume LVII, No. 6
Kenneth Clark and the Exodus of the Modernists
Vale Leonie Kramer, 1924-2016
Happy Make-Believe
The Larkin Manifesto
Recently in a Restaurant
In Hiding
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Was Kenneth Clark an enlightened tastemaker who backed modern English painting and sculpture? Posterity has judged him favourably. Still, three decades after his death, as English modernist art is relegated to the chronicle of history, popular perceptions need to be tested. Did he support genuine talent?August 15, 2024
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The first woman to chair Quadrant's board has passed away. More than a pioneer, she was a fierce of defender intellectual integrity, scourge of post-modernists and, it almost goes without saying, target of the treacherous left. Here, from our June, 2013, edition, thoughts on the life of a remarkable mindApril 22, 2016
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My mother’s dressing gown is dark green velvet, three velvet […]June 1, 2013
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Politicians are turning to literature to shore up their credibility […]
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I overheard a chair and table talking. The chair was […]
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Our ouija board brings out the dead. Their shadows flicker […]
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Clive James and Oliver Reed were Michael Parkinson’s guests. Reed […]
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Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fols, […]
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1. Contemplation It’s the alcohol that makes me white the magic […]
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At nineteen thousand feet The propeller is 2 metres of […]
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She had known there was work to be done when […]
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In his column in the Australian Financial Review last month, […]
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For one disquieting moment on Thursday, March 21, 2013, it […]
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May 31 marked the 100th anniversary of the election of […]
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Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter, Peggy Noonan, wrote a delightful book on […]
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Who do you think penned this little diagnostic of our […]
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Did Kenneth Clark fix English art? Was Kenneth Clark an […]
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John de Meyrick in his article “Legal Advice and Political […]
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Appeals to reason as a faculty—or to rationality as a […]
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Major-General Jim Molan wrote with controlled passion (“Why Our Defence […]
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In 1981, Monash University was a radical campus. The divisiveness […]
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Nefertiti in the Flak Tower by Clive James Picador, 2012, […]
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On the Purpose of a University Education edited by Luciano […]
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I took a liberal arts degree a long time ago […]
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False Promises: Sixties Philosophy Against the Church: A Sociological Memoir […]
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Something that has largely been overlooked in the same-sex marriage […]
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This essay is about the country that the CIA Factbook […]
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Salus populi suprema lex: the safety of the people is […]
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Returned to sender Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre is conveniently […]
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More “Cultural Genocide”? SIR: Stephanie Jarrett (“Aboriginal Liberation Through Integration”, […]
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When I was studying medicine at the University of Glasgow, […]
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Extend the line of the west coast of Tasmania northwards […]
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Japan made the first move on the conquest of China […]
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Presently my bookshelves house twenty-one anthologies of Australian Poetry and […]
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In the Australia of the 1940s and 1950s the Ealing […]
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Rembrandt Meets Jackson Pollock Rembrandt, when he is able, […]
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Undesirable: Captain Zuzenko and the Workers of Australia and the […]
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To an ordinary mug Australian, concerned about his country’s present […]
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It’s a bit disconcerting, the pencil fits in snugly But […]
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