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Graffiti a la art?

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February–March 1983, no. 48

Signs of Australia by Richard Tipping

Penguin, $6.95

Graffiti a la art?

by
February–March 1983, no. 48

We all have our favourite examples of language in the landscape, and can feel disappointment not to find them in collections. The pleasure they give can only be enhanced by finding more. This Richard Tipping has done, his choice of graffiti, random association, incongruity, and vandalised property documents man-made absurdity in what he terms ‘this visual and verbal traffic jam ... our every day mental habitat’. The resulting ‘photo-poems’ exploit the ambiguity between intent and effect, text and context to provide fields of symbols from which the reader (viewer?) construct his own meaning.

S.M. McLauren reviews 'Signs of Australia' by Richard Tipping

Signs of Australia

by Richard Tipping

Penguin, $6.95

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