David Thomas interviewed by Sheridan Palmer in the Australian art from 1950 to the present oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4810082
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Thomas, David, 1937-, interviewee
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- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2010
- 1 sound file (ca. 91 min.)
- Series:
- Australian art from 1950 to the present oral history project.
- Summary:
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David Thomas his childhood and education in Ballarat; reflections on Ballarat’s cultural life; the war years and the tent city for American soldiers and marines; attending Melbourne University, Fine Arts (1958-61); his university teachers; Australian history and art; European art; academia; the Melbourne cultural scene in the 1950s; the contemporary art scene in Melbourne and Ballarat in the 1940s and '50s; his arrival in Canberra, work at the National Library; the Rex Nan Kivell collection; working in the public service; the Pictorial Collection and conditions; buying for the National Library; émigrés and influential scholars; Canberra (1963); the move to Newcastle City Art Gallery; Newcastle Regional Art Gallery; Newcastle's colonial and contemporary collection; National Library exhibitions in the early 1960s; Modernism (1956); Newcastle (1968); his career in art galleries; his vision for the future for art collections; Canberra political figures; Melbourne in the early 1960s; Ballarat in the 1940s; Australian art market.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 2 March 2010 at University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
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- Timed summary (4 p.)
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Palmer, Sheridan, interviewer
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