Meeting in Excited Reverie: Mirka Mora meets Sidney Nolan
It is hoped that Imagining in Excited Reverie, this centenary tribute to Sidney Nolan, will introduce him to a new generation of art lovers. Not only that, perhaps it will also allow those who already know of him, but little about him, to learn more of the man regarded by many as the preeminent Australian painter of the 20th century. It is appropriate then that this first centenary tribute should be from one who knew of Nolan for some 30 years before actually meeting him. Indeed, as a close...
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In 1965 Sidney Nolan was invited to paint the cover for a centenary tribute to W. B. Yeats. It is one of almost eighty Nolan book covers. The book’s title In Excited Reverie, is from a Yeats poem. In his own centenary year 2017, what better title to pay tribute to Nolan’s fecund visual imagination than the full line by Yeats: “imagining in excited reverie.”1 Imagining in Excited Reverie is an online collection of prose and...
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