| NORMAN'S ART |
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note that the Bibliography is by no means complete. As we gather more information and we have the time, this list will be continually updated. A veritable work in progress ... |
| ASPECTS OF NORMAN'S ART |
Norman Lindsay's Ship Models
1966
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Norman Lindsay: War Cartoons 1914-1918
1983
Peter Fullerton (editor)
Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
Hardcover, dustjacket, black and white
There
is excitement in discovering that a significant body of work by an
artist of the standing of Norman Lindsay has thus far eluded the critical
gaze of the art historian.
Lindsay was resident cartoonist at the Bulletin during the Great
War. His large output included more than 150 full-page cartoons which appeared
on the journal's title page. Together with four recruiting posters, these
cartoons are here handsomely reproduced.
Today these strident, often virulent, expressions of 'anti-Hun' nationalism
may shock, even offend. They stand as formidable social documents reflecting
dominant values and beliefs of the time. Their propaganda element is strong — any
dissent from the prevailing responses to the Great War were characterised
by Lindsay as being cowardly and dishonourable. However, in his perceptive
commentary, Peter Fullerton points to the gulf between Lindsay's public
enthusiasm and a developing private disquiet. A most interesting foreword
by the artist's son Jack Lindsay deepens our understanding of Lindsay's
personal responses to his society.
The visual quality of the cartoons is such that they may stand independently
of their social context. The rendering of tone with a pen had along fascinated
Lindsay. Peter Fullerton — a graduate in Fine Arts from Melbourne
and London Universities — details the technical characteristics of
Lindsay's work and finds his achievement to be masterly.
Long overlooked,
and now finely reproduced and elucidated by a scholarly commentary, this
collection of cartoons is of wide appeal and value, both visually and socially.
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The Comic Art of Norman Lindsay
1987
Keith Wingrove
Angus & Robertson, Sydney
Hardcover, dustjacket, black and white
Norman
Lindsay's unique and enduring talent expressed itself in a wide variety
of media, ranging from portraits to model ships, from book illustrations
to war posters and, of course, prolific illustrations and cartoons for
the Bulletin, where he worked for almost 50 years, and its monthly
magazine, The Lone Hand.
The Comic Art of Norman Lindsay brings together for
the first time almost 500 of these cartoons and joke illustrations,
selected by Lindsay's friend, Keith Wingrove.
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| CATS |
Norman Lindsay's Cats
1975
Douglas Stewart (introduction)
The Macmillan Company of Australia
Hardcover, dustjacket, black and white
Norman
Lindsay kept a small, warm corner of his long artistic life for his
cats. He not only collected and kept a horde of them in the stables
and sheds, the gardens, bush and architectural nooks of Springwood — allowing
the occasional prince to share the master's studio — but he drew
them with delightful observation and humour.
While The Magic Pudding made Lindsay's koalas famous, this other
small anabranch of his art meandered on with little public scrutiny amid
the controversy, furore and celebration his paintings and pen drawings
excited.
Some of the collection presented here were done with quick delight over
the behaviour of one of his Springwood friends, a few as cartoons for The
Lone Hand or the Bulletin, and as Christmas cards or jokes.
They all express the pleasure and amusement his cats gave him and are a
perfect vehicle for the Lindsay line and wit.
His long term friend, the poet and author Douglas Stewart, introduces the
drawings with an entertaining and affectionate memoir of Lindsay and his
cats, and Lindsay accompanies them with his own survey of his feline companions
at Springwood.
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Norman Lindsay's Cats
1991
Douglas Stewart (introduction)
Pan Macmillan Publishers, Australia
Sun Australia
Edition
Softcover, black and white
Norman Lindsay kept a small, warm corner of his long artistic life for his cats. He not only collected and kept a horde of them in the stables and sheds, the gardens, bush and architectural nooks of Springwood — allowing the occasional prince to share the master's studio - but he drew them with delightful observation and humour.
While The Magic Pudding made Lindsay's koalas famous, this other small anabranch of his art meandered on with little public scrutiny amid the controversy, furore and celebration his paintings and pen drawings excited.
Some of the collection presented here were done with quick delight over the behaviour of one of his Springwood friends, a few were done as cartoons for the Lone Hand or the Bulletin, and others as Christmas cards or jokes. They all express the pleasure and amusement his cats gave him and are a perfect vehicle for the Lindsay line and sit.
His long-term friend, the poet and author Douglas Stewart, introduces the drawings with an entertaining and affectionate memoir of Lindsay and his cats, and Lindsay accompanies them with his own survey of his feline companions at Springwood.
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Norman Lindsay's Cats
1995
Douglas Stewart (introduction)
Softcover, black and white
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Norman Lindsay: Artful Cats
2001
Meg
Stewart (introduction)
Odana Editions, Bungendore
Hardcover, no dustjacket, colour and black and white
From the far-off days of his boyhood at Creswick until his death in 1969, Norman Lindsay was a keen observer and lover of cats. During his last three decades at Springwood it could be said that he collected cats of all descriptions; many roamed in the sheds, stables, garden and bushland, with a few in the house. Only one was specially chosen to be the Studio Cat.
Norman Lindsay: Artful Cats contains pictures which have never before been published and rare family photographs from the Lindsay and Stewart estates. There are drawings and paintings of cats in all guises, with particular emphasis on Studio Cat Fuzz Buzz, Cat Stories and the wonderful Whimsical Cats, all of which display the full range of Norman's wit and imagination. The chapter of letters from Norman to Margaret Coen and Meg stewart provides a rare insight into Norman's empathy with his cat family.
Liberally illustrated in both colour and black and white, Artful Cats is the definitive book on Norman Lindsay's cats and a must for every cat lover.
Meg Stewart, filmmaker turned journalist, author and cat person, is the daughter of artist Margaret Coen and poet Douglas Stewart. For the first six years of her life, she lived in what had earlier been the painting studio of Norman Lindsay at 12 Bridge Street, Sydney. During her childhood and teenage years, she was a frequent visitor to the Springwood retreat of the Lindsays and had a personal acquaintance with, at least, some of its fabled tribe of cats.
Meg Stewart's own literary output includes the biography of Margaret Coen, Autobiography of My Mother and the art book Margaret Coen: A Passion for Painting, as well as fiction writing. Her first novel was Modern Men Don't Shift Fridges, published in 1999 and her most recent, The Dream Life of Harry Moon, was published at the beginning of 2001.
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| BEARS |
Norman Lindsay's Bears
1978
Keith Wingrove
Hardcover, dustjacket, black and white |
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