The Slav Avant-garde in Australian Art

• Authors: Zoja Bojić

Title variants

PL

The Slav Avant-garde in Australian Art

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

Australian art history includes a peculiar short period during which the European avant-garde values were brought to Australia by a group of Slav artists who gathered in Adelaide in 1950. They were brothers Voitre (1919–1999) and Dušan Marek (1926–1993) from Bohemia, Władysław (1918–1999) and Ludwik Dutkiewicz (1921–2008) from Poland, and Stanislaus (Stanislav, Stan) Rapotec (1911–1997) from Yugoslavia, later joined by Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski (1922–1994) from Poland. Each of these artists went on to leave their individual mark on the overall Australian art practice. This brief moment of the artists’ working and exhibiting together also enriched their later individual work with the very idea of a common Slav cultural memory.

Keywords

EN

Slav cultural memory; Slav artists; émigré artists; avant-garde; Australia; Slav cultural memory; Slav artists; émigré artists; avant-garde; Australia

PL

Slav cultural memory; Slav artists; émigré artists; avant-garde; Australia

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 18
• Pages: 37-48

Dates

published

2020-04-28

Contributors

author

Zoja Bojić

• The Institute for the Literature and the Arts, Belgrade

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2721-803X

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pss.2020.18.2