Abstract
Bryan Robertson curated a number of exhibitions of international significance during his time as Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1952-1968) and is renowned for bringing the work of American abstract expressionist painters Lee Krasner, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and others to London's East End. In 1961, the same year as the Rothko exhibition, Robertson staged Recent Australian Painting, a survey exhibition curated with the help of Hal Missingham of AGNSW. Bernard Smith has been an outspoken critic of this exhibition, claiming that Robertson's curatorial leaning was towards primitivism. In Impact of the Modern, Simon Pierse examines the validity of this assertion, exploring modernism and internationalism in relation to the reception of Australian contemporary painting in London in the early nineteen-sixties.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Impact of the Modern |
| Subtitle of host publication | Vernacular Australian Modernities in Australia 1970s-1960s |
| Editors | Robert Dixon, Veronica Kelly |
| Publisher | Sydney University Press |
| Pages | 154-167 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781920898892 |
| Publication status | Published - 01 Dec 2008 |
| Event | Australian Vernacular Modernities conference, University of Queensland - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 05 Dec 2006 → 07 Dec 2006 |
Conference
| Conference | Australian Vernacular Modernities conference, University of Queensland |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Brisbane |
| Period | 05 Dec 2006 → 07 Dec 2006 |