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Max Dupain (1911-1992): Australian Men on the Beach
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on September 20, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
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laconic, Australiian, race, Bergson, Suren, bather, Sunlight, model, subjective, photographs, Cezanne, natural, gymnasium, Newport, First, sexually, moral, peak, internalized, military, beads, body, classical, series, perfection, fitness, revitalization, disorienting, 1937, vitalistic
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in Dupain's photographs of bathers, he shares interests with               's Bather
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for his painting The Bather, Cezanne used                        to explore how a body moves through space
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it's a study of the placement of the body and its placement in the                world
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both returned often to the              as the subject of their art
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         The Sunbaker
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an athletic man lying on the beach
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fresh from the surf with            of water on his back
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a monumental muscular form
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he solemnly claims his place in the environment
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he's almost hovering in this spatially                          photograph
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the sand and sky seem to merge
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this man has become part of the environment in which he is placed
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following the great loss of life of the            World War, there was an interest in Australia as far away and elsewhere
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the theme of                              was prominent
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exploration of          culture
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photography was able to reveal                  differentiated energies
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Dupain focused on the body as a symbol of                     
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the Sunbaker is part of a              that he produced
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men and women sunbathing on the beach, sometimes naked
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identified them with the revitalizing forces
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vitalism
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developed by French philosopher, Henri               
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source of inspiration for Dupain
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underpinned the health and                movement
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Dupain was attracted to the                      writings of Bergson
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Dupain was also influenced by D.H. Lawrence and Nietzsche
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focus
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the degenerative effects of modernity
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modern men and women should reconnect to the what they believed to be life forces
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emphasis on the intuitive and                     
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therefore of interest to many artists
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a return to the                    world of the Greeks and Romans
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Sunbaker and series
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celebrates the power of sunlight
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Man and                  (1927)
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Hans           
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weather-hardened men, bronzed with sun and strong as steel
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everyone should partake in what he termed active hygienics to benefit          and humanity
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referred to antiquity as a period when humanity was physically at its         
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Sunbaker is a model of good health in the classical mold
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also photos of life savers which had                  overtones
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themes of nationalism, sport and masculinity
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looked to the past invoking the fine muscularity of Greeks and Romans
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proposed as a            for contemporary men and women
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Dupain's views were formed during years at his father's                   
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his father George Dupain was a member of the vitalist movement in Australia
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models were often members of his father's gymnasium
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upstanding
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symbols of            virtue
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taps into powerful memories to give weight to his photographs
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1952 Exposure:                Baths
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man leaving pool at one of Sydney's most beloved surf beaches
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warm weather
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embodies a lanky,                masculinity
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believed to idealize what it meant to be                       
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clearly relates to Dupain's interest in antiquity
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a study of how the body is placed in space
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caught at a certain moment while the subject's thoughts are                         
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the viewer avoids his gaze, as with Cezanne's Bather
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the subject's focus is inward
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their concern is for themselves
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shows a naturalized masculinity
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