On the cover this month
Design by Alexander Golovin,
Mir iskusstva (World of Art), vol. 1, 1999
Mir iskusstva (World of Art), St Petersburg: 1898-1904
The
National Library holds the only complete set of this journal in
Australia. The periodical was established with the backing of two
patrons of Russian art, Savva Mamontov and Princess Maria Tenisheva and
went into production with Serge Diaghilev and its editor-in-chief. The
journal set out to counteract the Realism movement, so popular at the
time, and to propagate the idea of art for art’s sake. Diaghilev’s
manifesto for the publication embodied many of the ideas that were
later to shape his very successful Ballets Russes.
Although
the journal has been in the National Library of Australia for 30 years,
having been acquired as part of a larger consignment of Russian books
from a Brisbane-based professor, Andrew Field, it was only recently
'rediscovered' during the creation of an online record.
July 2005 Volume XV Number 10
MIR ISKUSSTVA: SERGE DlAGHILEV'S ART JOURNAL
As part of a project to celebrate the three tours to Australia by the Ballets Russes companies between 1936 and 1940, Michelle Potter examines a seminal fin de siecle art journal embodying the taste and dynamism of its editor, Serge Diaghilev
PORT JACKSON PEOPLE
Keith Vincent Smith explores the idea that depictions of Port Jackson Aborigines by William Westall and the 'Port Jackson Painter' may indeed be the famous contemporaries Colebee and Bennelong
THE PERILS OF THE INTERIOR: INSIDE THE AUSTRALIAN ARTIST'S STUDIO
Alexander Taylor, one of this year’s Norman McCann Summer Scholars, looks at the use of both the artist’s studio and the great outdoors as competing venues in the creative process
BEFORE YOU HEAD OFF FOR THAT FRIENDLY WORLD ...
Snjezana Cosic, also a Norman McCann Summer Scholar for 2005, investigates representations of Australia in immigration publicity between 1945 and 1960
COMMEMORATING THE NATION IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
Roslyn Russell targets memorabilia in the Library to see how Australia celebrates its significant anniversaries
FRIENDS
A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
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