| Bib ID |
728876 |
| Format |
Audio, Online - Google Books |
| Author |
Counihan, Noel, 1913-1986
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| Access Conditions |
Access open for research, personal copies and public use. |
| Description |
1986.
7 cassettes (ca. 630 min.) ; 1 7/8 ips.
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| Summary |
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.
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| Notes |
Recorded at Cantebury, Melbourne, Vic. between 22 May 1986 and 2 June 1986.
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| Index/Finding Aid Note |
Transcript available (typescript, 356 p.) |
| Subjects |
Counihan, Noel, - 1913-1986 - Interviews. | Painters - Australia - Interviews. | Cartoonists - Australia - Interviews.
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| Other Authors |
Blackman, Barbara, 1928-
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