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245 00 Painting the town. 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2014. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 59 min.) :
       |bdigital, .flv file, sound 
336    two-dimensional moving image|2rdacontent 
337    computer|2rdamedia 
337    video|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|2rdacarrier 
500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by Ronin Films in 1986. 
520    In 1937 Yosl, a 17-year-old Polish Jew, arrived in 
       Melbourne where he joined his sister Ruth, a dancer, and 
       his father Melech Ravich. A leading Yiddish writer, Ravich
       had journeyed to Australia to search for a new homeland 
       for Jews fleeing anti-Semitism and fascism in Europe. But 
       Australia in the late 1930s was still suffering the 
       effects of economic depression. Unemployment was 
       widespread and few people had been left unscathed by the 
       disenchantment of the decade. Jim Wigley and Albert Tucker,
       who appear in Painting the town, tell of a school of 
       painters committed to representing their experience of 
       this era. Their group, which included artists Noel 
       Couniham, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Joy Hester, Danila 
       Vassilieff and John Perceval, learned much from Yosl 
       Bergner who, in spite of his youth, became an 
       inspirational figure in this circle. Drawing their themes 
       and images from the modern world, these painters were pre-
       occupied with the horror, waste and dispossession of the 
       years in which the world drifted from depression into war.
       Yosl painted both from memories of Warsaw, his home city, 
       and from experience of a new land, Australia. Together 
       with his paintings of refugees, ghettos and the 
       destruction of Europe, he exhibited works depicting the 
       sufferings of Australian Aboriginals, for Yosl saw their 
       plight and that of his own people, the Jews, as one. The 
       story of Bergner and his work is the story of a movement 
       which gave birth to an Australian city art, a movement 
       which battled to create a new Australian identity in the 
       face of cultural isolation and a conservative pastoralist 
       artistic tradition. Yosl Bergner, Ruth Bergner, Jim Wigley
       and Albert Tucker bring the richness of their experience 
       to Painting the town. Their anecdotes and reflections 
       combine with archival film and significant art works of 
       the period to tell an important and vibrant story; a story
       in which history makes paintings and paintings make 
       history. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Bergner, Yosl,|d1920-2017. 
600 10 Bergner, Ruth. 
600 10 Wigley, Jim. 
600 10 Tucker, Albert. 
650  0 Art, Australian. 
650  0 Painters|zAustralia. 
650  0 Depressions|zAustralia. 
651  0 Australia|xHistory|y20th century. 
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