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Name: Norman Lindsay  
   
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Date of Birth: 23rd February 1879
   
Place of Birth: Creswick, Victoria, Australia
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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A concrete and steel sculpture by Norman Lindsay depicting a female nude in an erotic pose

Norman Alfred William Lindsay (February 22, 1879 – November 21, 1969) was a prolific artist, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, and scale modeler. He is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest artists. His sumptuous nudes were highly controversial and in 1939 several were burned by irate wowsers in the United States who discovered them when the train in which they traveled caught fire. A large body of his work is housed in his former home at Faulconbridge, New South Wales, now the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum, and many works reside in private and corporate collections. His art continues to climb in value today: in 2002 a record price was attained by his oil painting, Spring's Innocence, which sold to the National Gallery of Victoria for $AU333,900.

Lindsay was associated with a number of poets, such as Kenneth Slessor and Hugh McCrae, influencing them in part through a philosophical system outlined in his book Creative Effort. His son, Jack Lindsay, emigrated to England, where he set up Fanfrolico Press, which issued works illustrated by Lindsay.

Lindsay wrote the children's classic The Magic Pudding, and created a scandal when his novel Redheap was banned due to censorship laws. Many of his novels have a frankness and vitality that matches his art.

Lindsay also worked as an editorial cartoonist, notably for The Bulletin. Despite his enthusiasm for erotica, he shared the racist and right-wing political leanings that dominated the Bulletin at that time; the "Red Menace" and "Yellow Peril" were popular themes in his cartoons. These views occasionally spilled over into his other work, and modern editions of The Magic Pudding often omit one couplet in which 'you unmitigated Jew' is used as an insult.

Sam Neill played a fictionalized version of Lindsay in the 1994 film Sirens, set and filmed primarily at his Faulconbridge home.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Cousin from Fiji 1945
  • Halfway to Anywhere 1947
  • Redheap 1930
  • Curate in Bohemia 1913
  • Miracles by Arrangement 1932
  • Saturdee 1932
  • The Cautious Amorist 1934
  • Pan in the Parlour 1933
  • Age of Consent 1935
  • Rooms and Houses
  • Dust or Polish

Children's Books

  • The Magic Pudding 1918
  • The Flyaway Highway 1936.

Autobiographical

  • My Mask (autobiography) 1970
  • Bohemians of the Bulletin

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