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...time of Cant's return to Australia. With this seascape of roiling waves under ominous clouds, a generation's fear of war is made transparent. That is the true subject of a collection that begins in 1925 and ends in 1955. Here even the most whimsical of images, Eric Thake's Happy Landing, 1939, speaks of the turbines of warfare. It was war that brought German ?migr? Hein Heckroth to Australia. His brief detention in rural N.S.W. resulted in one of the show's loveliest works, Surreal Landscape, 1940, in which one of Max Ernst's birds seems to have...
...Thake the blood of him and the grease of himself and oatmeal and salt and peper and ginger, and mix these well together, and then put this in the gut of the porpoise and let it seethe easily, and not hard, a good while. Then take him up and broil him a little, and then serve forth...
...Barkers. J. B. Morton (as his friends know him) is one of England's foremost versifiers (Who's Who at the Zoo, The Adventures of Mr. Thake, The Dancing Cabman) and a serious scholar specializing in the French Revolution ( The Bastille Falls). He has been the "Beachcomber" 20 years, but his success in whimsey is not unique...