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Antipodeans

A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art | 1999 | | Copyright

Antipodeans (or Antipodean Group). The name adopted by a group of Australian painters ( Arthur Boyd and John Perceval were the best known) who held an exhibition in Melbourne in 1959; the catalogue contained a manifesto of their aims, attacking abstraction and championing figurative art. The manifesto, written by the art historian Bernard Smith (1916– ), has been described by Robert Hughes (The Art of Australia, 1970) as ‘the most controversial document in recent Australian painting'. Hughes points out that much Australian abstract painting of the time was indeed vacuous and derivative, but says the error of the manifesto ‘was to suppose that the paintings were weak because they were abstract'.

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Antipodeans

The Oxford Dictionary of Art | 2004 | | Copyright

Antipodeans (or Antipodean Group). The name adopted by a group of Australian painters ( Arthur Boyd was the best known) who held an exhibition in Melbourne in 1959; the catalogue contained a manifesto of their aims and ideas, attacking abstraction and championing figurative art.

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Antipodeans

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists | 2003 | | Copyright

Antipodeans (or Antipodean Group). The name adopted by a group of Australian painters (Arthur Boyd was the best known) who held an exhibition in Melbourne in 1959; the catalogue contained a manifesto of their aims and ideas, attacking abstraction and championing figurative art.

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	WELCOME TO LONDON; She's Australian and she's over here, living with her... Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 8/28/2001
	Antipodeans and Anglos head 'home'. Newspaper article from: Daily Mail (London); 10/24/2000
	Patriot games for Antipodeans. Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 7/14/2000