Tom Arthur | National Gallery of Victoria | ACMI collection

Episode number 10 of Series “Survey (National Gallery of Victoria)”.
Tom Arthur’s art is for him a visual way of reasoning. By using the associated symbolic meanings and cultural connotations attached to specific objects and images he attempts to examine and question belief structures and systems of knowledge and how society forces these into its members. For Tom Arthur there are no absolutes, and everything seems relative

Credits

production company

National Gallery of Victoria

Open Channel Productions

Duration

00:31:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

Appears in

Survey (National Gallery of Victoria)

Group of items

Survey (National Gallery of Victoria)

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

013453

Language

English

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Modern - 20th century - Australia

Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting, Australian

People → Arthur, Tom, 1946-

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic; Access Print (Section 1)

MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan

MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan

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