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Details
- Date
- 1970
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour screenprint on offset lithographic paper
- Edition
- 9/17
- Dimensions
- 60.8 x 73.6 cm image; 69.6 x 91.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "J. Senbergs '70 ..."
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2008
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 295.2008
- Copyright
- © Estate of Jan Senbergs/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Jan Senbergs
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About
"This print is from the period of the Vietnam War. At the time, it was in the news all the time. There were public demonstrations.
I called it The hill because it is about a hill being taken – the reportage of Khe Sanh came to mind; and of the sacrifice of those stuck up on a crucifix without the cross – the suggestion of victims of suffering; guns facing down the hill and of lumps going up the hill. It's social comment – trying to make a figurative image without being too literal. This and the painting The threat are close to commenting upon what was happening, also being conscious of not wanting to be messianic about it. You can make a powerful image without being totally specific…"Jan Senbergs
[Hendrik Kolenberg, Jan Senbergs complete screenprints 1960-88, pg 53] -
Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Jan Senbergs: from screenprints to painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Apr 2008–25 May 2008
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Bibliography
Referenced in 12 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian graphics 1974, Canberra, 1974, (illus.). cat.no. 64; NOTE: Impression unknown.
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Sasha Grishin AM, Australian identities in printmaking: the Australian print collection of Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, 2000. NOTE: Another impression was exhibited.
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Jan Senbergs: Complete screenprints 1960-88, Sydney, 2008, 53 (colour illus.). cat.no. 40
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Robert Lindsay, Jan Senbergs selected works: an exhibition of paintings, drawings and silkscreen prints, Melbourne, 1984, 16 (illus.). cat.no. 21; NOTE: Another impression was exhibited.
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Patrick McCaughey, Voyage and landfall: the art of Jan Senbergs, Carlton, 2006, 37 (illus.).
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James Mollison, Australian prints (1972), London, 1972, (illus.). cat.no. 67; NOTE: Impression unknown.
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Monash University Gallery, Sets and series, prints and drawings from the Monash University collection, Victoria, 1991. Impression from Monash University Gallery Collection
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Monash University Gallery, Selections from the Monash University collection: drawings and recent gifts, Victoria, 1989. Impression from Monash University Gallery Collection
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Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Jan Senbergs 1965 to 1975, Mornington, 1975. cat.no. 26; NOTE: Impression unknown.
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Print Council of Australia, Ten printmakers (1970), Melbourne, 1970. cat.no. 23; NOTE: Impression unknown.
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Sandra Warner, Australian printmaking : the second wave, 1940s-1960s, Sydney, 1991, 37 (illus.). cat.no. 105; NOTE: Impression unknown.
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7th International biennial exhibition of prints in Tokyo (1970-1971), Japan, 1970, (illus.). NOTE: Impression unknown.
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