Title
Installation view of the exhibition 'The field', 1968, Art Gallery of New South Wales
November 1968
Artist
New South Wales Government Printing Office
1840 – 25 Jul 1989
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Domain
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- November 1968
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 18.5 x 24.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- National Art Archive. Art Gallery of New South Wales Institutional Archive
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- ARC30.906.29
- Copyright
- © Art Gallery of New South Wales © the artists
- Artist information
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New South Wales Government Printing Office
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About
'The field' was the inaugural exhibition for the opening of the National Gallery of Victoria in its new home on St Kilda Road, Melbourne, in 1968. It featured a selection of 74 works by artists working in Australia. After being shown at the National Gallery of Victoria, it was exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 30 October to 24 November 1968.
This photograph shows Col Jordan 'Daedalus series 6' 1968 on the wall at the back and a part of 'Knossus II' 1968 on the floor in front of it, Alun Leach-Jones 'Noumenon XX first light' 1967 on the extended wall and his 'Noumenon XIX Indian summer' 1967 on the flat wall, with Udo Sellbach 'The myth of the machine' 1968 and Tony Bishop’ 'Clik-clak-clik' 1968 on the floor.