Angry Penguins edited by Max Harris and John Reed (Second Hand Book)

Description SECOND HAND BOOK The first 20 or so pages of the journal are devoted to comments and letters in defense of the poetry of Ern Malley, despite its having been exposed as a hoax since its appearance in the previous number. Almost as intriguingly, this section is followed by an article by Albert Tucker on ‘The Unknown Australian Artist H.D.’, illustrated with six of HD’s artworks (with one more on the front cover). Nancy Underhill (‘Sidney Nolan. A Life’, 2015) discusses HD at length, and comes to the conclusion that ‘I see the HD/Dearing pictures as Nolan’s first foray into experimenting with Primitive painting, which is not to say he painted them all. Remember the sophisticated faux unskilling in The Kellys. Please recall that naïve affectation was god-sent for Nolan as it offered a positive, up-to-date style that obscured his woeful skills at academic tonal modelling’. Quarto, 112 pages with 18 illustrations (4 portraits of contributors, including Ern Malley as a nipper; the balance are reproductions of artworks, including seven from the forthcoming CAS Exhibition). Loosely inserted is an article from The Weekend Magazine from October 1981 titled ‘A Revolution recalled: The angry young penguins’.  Colour reproduction of painting by unknown Australian Primitive H.D. executed by Len Etheridge’. Relatively good condition.  Age related yellowing of pages with some staining on some of the pages.  There is also some pencil and pen marking on some pages.