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Commissioned Altar-Piece single work   poetry   "Head bowed, the Virgin, with attentive air,"
  • Author:agent Rosemary Dobson http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/dobson-rosemary
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 Commissioned Altar-Piece
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Art Builds on Art : Rosemary Dobson and Thea Proctor Robyn S. Heales , 1975 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 7 no. 1 1975; (p. 64-71)

Examines the way in which paintings have affected Dobson's work, and focuses on Dobson's "habit of juxtaposing what one might call human reality with an aesthetic reality which is created out of the description of a painting" (65). Compares Dobson's poetry with Thea Proctor's artistic technique.

Art Builds on Art : Rosemary Dobson and Thea Proctor Robyn S. Heales , 1975 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 7 no. 1 1975; (p. 64-71)

Examines the way in which paintings have affected Dobson's work, and focuses on Dobson's "habit of juxtaposing what one might call human reality with an aesthetic reality which is created out of the description of a painting" (65). Compares Dobson's poetry with Thea Proctor's artistic technique.

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