Clem Millward interviewed by Wendy Lowenstein in the Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 562297
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Millward, Clem, 1929-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1993 Nov. 22
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 135 min.)
- Series:
- Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project
- Summary:
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Clem Millward, painter, former waterside worker and art teacher, speaks of his left wing family background; early interest in art; Wilmont's Advertising Agency work; part-time commercial art studies, East Sydney Technical College; Julian Ashton Art School classes; joining Communist Party of Australia; contributions to Youth Voice; art studies as a foreign student in Romania; art teacher training in Australia; socialist realist project work; Communist influences on Romanian art; Germanic-Russian art tradition; Romanian attitudes to Western European art; Stalinism; landscape painting excursions; Sydney waterfront work; wharf mural; anti-war paintings; disassociation from CPA; removing wharf mural from the wall & its reassembly; Rod Shaw; art teaching at high schools & technical colleges; professional painting career following retirement; his own painting style; printmaking; Melbourne art patronage.
- Biography/History:
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Millward joined the Communist Party of Australia whist an art student, attending East Sydney Technical College (1945-47), Julian Ashton Art School (1948-50) and the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Plastic Arts (1951-55) in Bucharest, Romania. He resigned from the Party whilst working on the Sydney waterfront (1956-1960) before taking up an art teaching career.
- Notes:
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- Transcript unavailable.
- Recorded in Sydney, N.S.W. on 22 November 1993.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available.
- Subject:
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- Millward, Clem, 1929- -- Interviews
- Communists -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Societies and clubs
- Art students -- Romania -- Interviews
- Painters -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Interviews
- Stevedores -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Interviews
- Mural painting and decoration -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
- Communism and art -- Romania
- Other authors/contributors:
- Lowenstein, Wendy, 1927-2006, interviewer
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