Photo: Fergus Floyd

Keynote Lecture by Terence Maloon

Sunday 8 February 2015
4-5PM

‘Tuckson, Fairweather and the Crisis of the Easel Picture’
Keynote Lecture by Terence Maloon
Director, ANU Drill Hall Gallery and Art Collection

To celebrate the exhibitions Ian Fairweather: The Drunken Buddha and Tony Tuckson: Paintings and Drawings, the esteemed curator, art historian and critic Terence Maloon will present a keynote lecture on these two major Australian artists. In particular, he will discuss how each artist individually responded to and acted out, what the critic Clement Greenberg described in 1948 as, the ‘crisis of the easel picture’.

Lecture followed by refreshments.

Tickets $20 adult / $15 concession (Pension & Student card holders). Includes Museum entry, lecture & refreshments.

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