Albert Tucker interviewed by Barbara Blackman [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1384062
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Tucker, Albert, 1914-1999, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1988
- 16 sound tape reels (ca. 720 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, two track, mono. ; 10 in.
- Summary:
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Tucker, an artist and painter, speaks of his family background; childhood memories; early career and beginnings as an artist; early political interests during the 1930s; Joy Hester, her development as an artist, their relationship; his experiences in the army and during World War II; working for the Angry Penguins; his relationship with John and Sunday Reed; exhibitions; his son Sweeney Reed; interest in poetry and influence of Ern Malley's poetry; his philosophies on life, humanity, good and evil, society today and men and women; his work, methods, medium; work habits; his experiences whilst travelling and living overseas; relations with other artists such as the Boyds and Sidney Nolan; his experiences during the Depression; art groups, galleries; friends and associates; his own collection; art and society; impressions upon returning to Australia in the 1960s; technology; portrait painting; painters and painting; psychic surgeons in the Phillipines.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at St. Kilda, Vic. on July 14, 1988.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 210 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Blackman, Barbara, 1928-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2058 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1988
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