Venus in Tullamarine: Art, Sex, Politics and Norman Lindsay

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Norman Lindsay (18791969) was a prolific, popular, and controversial Australian artist, best known for his childrens book The Magic Pudding, and prints which draw on Greek and Roman myth and C19th literature and philosophy.

Australian culture is indelibly marked by Lindsays output, his prominence in the Sydney bohemian intellectual scene, and by The Magic Pudding, which entrances the imagination of generations of Australian children. But it is marked by the paradoxical conjunctions of Lindsays life, too: artistic bohemia and fascistic tendencies, avant-gardism and a fervor for the rule of law, libertinism and conservatism, worship and denigration.

Few figures are as divisive as Lindsay. These essays, by art historians, film critics and cultural commentators are erudite, varied, and often incendiary.

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Cameron Hurst is an arts writer, editor and academic. She is a contributing editor of Memo Review, an editor of Index Journal and teaches art history subjects at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. She also co-hosts the Clam & Jackie Bam digital radio show. Jeremy George is a PhD student in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Adrian Martin is an arts critic based in Spain and Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. He is the author of eight books on cinema, including Mysteries of Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2018). His ongoing archive website of film reviews, covering forty years of writing, is at filmcritic.com.au. Ursula Cornelia de Leeuw is a writer and researcher based between Melbourne and Adelaide who focuses on the excesses of modernity. Her work has been published in Art + Australia, Artlink, SPLM and Index Journal, among others. Born in Vietnam and based in Narrm/Melbourne, James Nguyens interdisciplinary practice moves between live and online performance, video, drawing and installation. He is interested in personal history and migrant absurdities, often working with his family and friends to examine the politics of art, self-representation, displacement and diaspora. Soo-Min Shim is an arts writer living between Gadigal land and Ngunawal, Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. She is currently completing her PhD at the Australian National University.