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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 ...
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Creative Effort: An Essay in Affirmation
1920
Norman Lindsay
Art in Australia, Sydney
Hardcover (standard)
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Creative Effort: An Essay in Affirmation
1920
Norman Lindsay
Art in Australia, Sydney
Hardcover (de luxe), edition of 120 (100 for sale)
This edition includes one original etching titled Creative Effort.
To whom does one offer the gift of a thought?
To him who already thinks it.
The mission of the thinker is not to enlighten, but to confirm. The material for enlightenment is already there, like a piled-up beacon; the new thought is but a spark that sets it alight.
Anger at the stupidity of common minds is foolish, save in youth, when it is a stimulus.
Yet all high minds wish to offer the gift of thought to mankind, and because it is rejected they become bitter.
But gold is no use to a savage. He prefers iron, which is useful to him. And here the savage is wise. One cannot blame the common mind, because it seeks common thoughts — vulgar utilities — for these things help it.
If the common man is also able to catch a little at highter thoughts, so much the better; but he has caught something in passing not addressed to him.
The message of the Creatifive Effort is to him whose mission is to carry on the Creative Effort.
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Creative Effort: An Essay in Affirmation
1924
Norman Lindsay
Cecil Palmer, London
Hardcover
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Hyperborea
1928
Norman Lindsay
London
A collection of travel essays. |
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Madam Life's Lovers
1929
Norman Lindsay
The Fanfrolico Press, London
Hardcover, no dustjacket
A human narrative embodying a philosophy of the artist in dialogue form. |
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Scribblings of an Idle Mind
1966
Norman Lindsay
Melbourne |
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Siren and Satyr: The Personal Philosophy of Norman Lindsay
1976
Cedric Flower (editor)
AD Hope (introduction)
Sun Books
Softcover
Norman
Lindsay suffered many decades of wowseristic vilification for his inclusion
among his fantastic output of drawings, etchings, woodcuts and paintings
(as well as books, statues, articles, letters and ship models) a frank
and magnificent succession of nude figures and pagan scenes. He suffered
the first public outcry against his work in 1907, and was so enraged
by its continuance that he left the country for a year in 1931 'to escape
the splenetic furies of the national ego'.
Lindsay's erotic art was in no way pornographic, and he made the distinction
himself. 'Bawdy in art is extreme from pornography', he wrote. 'Pornography
is ... dull, boring, humourless to any mind sensitised to the intonation
of wit and humour.'
Norman Lindsay's nudes are animated and noble, their intentions ambiguous
and their proportions superb. Siren and Satyr presents a selection
of his works in various media, and an introduction by the celebrated poet,
A D Hope. |
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