Noel Counihan interviewed by Barbara Blackman [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 728876
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Counihan, Noel, 1913-1986, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1986
- 7 cassettes (ca. 630 min.) ; 1 7/8 ips.
- Summary:
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Noel Counihan, an artist, speaks about his childhood and schooling; early cartoon drawing; encouragement from school masters to enrol in the National Gallery Art School; Bill Dolphin; artists he knew and their work; reasons for changing his name to Cunningham; interest in communism; unemployment; the Workers' Art Club; exhibitions; Judah Waten; move to New Zealand and deportation for anti-conscription activities; contracting tuberculosis; Yose Bergner; the Contemporary Art Society; John and Sunday Reed; drawing coal miners at Wonthaggi; travel to London; involvement in the 1949 peace conference in Paris; visits to Prague and Poland; and work as a Fleet Street caricaturist and cartoonist.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at Cantebury, Melbourne, Vic. between 22 May 1986 and 2 June 1986.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-198039815
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (typescript, 356 p.)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Blackman, Barbara, 1928-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2056 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1986
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