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The action RPG genre is a tough one to balance out—players will need to spend hours grinding their way through hordes of enemies, slowly advancing in both power and equipment. Good games will find a way to make this grind enjoyable, even addictive. The carrot-on-a-stick approach is essential, with the vision of getting that next major power, talent, or piece of weaponry dangling just ahead, making players push ahead for just a few more minutes. Unfortunately, Dawn of Magic seems to forego the carrot altogether, leaving us with all the tedium and grind of a good action RPG and none of the rewards.
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I am wondering about breastfeeding my twins when they are born around Thanksgiving. I have a pump to help me but I am a little nervous about having energy and the milk supply to feed both until at least 1 year. Does anyone have suggestions?
i dont have multiples i dont think but i would imagin that u can take turns ur hubbie or another person have one eith a bottle and the other on the brest and alternate it will b kinda difficut to have them to both but they will get use to it and as long as u drink and eat plenty ur body will come up with the milk to feed them both it will just take most of ur time for a long time id imagin
Original poster: I'd recommend contacting your local La Leche League for some helpful, accurate info. There is a great book on this. I think it's "Mothering Multiples." I forget the exact title. I'll follow up.
@PediNurse May I ask why you recommended pumping? My experience is that it's generally unnecssary. Most women produce more than enough milk in the beginning. Then, based on how often the mother empties her breasts (by feeding her hungry baby or babies) the mother's body figures out the true amount that the baby (or babies) need. Pumping sounds like a tiring & unnecessary bit of additional work for a new mother.
@jaylee Bottle feeding too early usually disrupts the mother's ability to produce the accurate amount of milk and requires the mother to pump. Feeding the babies directly from the breast is usually less work than getting pumping equipment, warming bottles, etc. Also, a baby feeds from the breast differently than he feeds from the bottle. Introducing an aritificial nipple may cause the baby to prefer the bottle...and again interfer with the mother's ability to successfully feed her babies and to produce the right amoutn of milk.
Hi Dawn,
I'm expecting twins in late Nov too! My doctor suggested a combo of pumping and using formula. He said pumping gets the job done faster and allows others in your family to help with the feedings. Since breastmilk isn't as filling, he suggested formula for the night feedings so they will sleep longer. That's my plan for now, of course we'll see how things go once the girls arrive.
As for breastmilk for the entire first year, I guess your body will let you know if that's possible. You are a Milk Goddess if you can do this for a year. Lots of my friends with singletons stopped around 8-9 months due to their milk supply.
Good luck!
@PediNurse Thank you for that great explanation. I'm sure it will be helpful for the orginal poster. I certainly learned a lot. It sounds like you'd recommend pumping for pre-term twins who seem to not be transferring milk effectively.
@chicagotwinmomma The content of breastmilk is "lacking" something that formula has. Breastmilk is the standard by which substitutes should be measured. So breastmilk isn't "less filling." It's perfect as it is. Formula could be considered "more filling." That's not necessarily a good thing, though. I think mother nature had it all figured out. :-)
Also, there's research that shows that formula does NOT cause a baby to sleep longer at night. Also, as parents we may need to adjust our expectations. Given the way that babies' sleep cycles work and their nutritional needs, they should NOT be sleeping through the night.
Hi Dawn Congrads on your twins!! I have 2 month twin boys. What a blessing it is. I breastfed exclusivly for 4 weeks and then started supplementing 50/50. It is not easy!!! Im not going to lie. But a great bonding expierence!!! I too bought a pump but honestly have not used it that much. You will be feeding those babies soooooooo much that your milk WILL come in and it will be more than enough and your not going to want to pump. My boys ate every hour for 4 weeks ----thats why i started giving them formula. They were born at 37 weeks and 4 days and weighed 5.10 lbs and 6.8 lbs. The last 2 months are the worst--just hang in there and keep thoses babies in as long as you can. Congrads and Good Luck
I'm sorry if it seemed that I was "discouraging" pumping. That was not my intent. It is very helpful to know when pumping might be helpful. I think that PediNurse did a great job of explaining why pumping might be helpful.
It's also good to know that pumping is not always needed.
Congratulations! I have 4 month old twin girls I'm breastfeeding, They were born at 35 weeks and were in the NICU for 2 weeks and were primarily bottle fed but over time I've worked hard with a lactation consultant and am now exclusively breast feeding. Don't let any body worry you about switching from bottle to breast. For the most part now I have them alternating, although sometimes I tandem nurse them. I pumped after every feeding for the first 2 months and now I pump 1-2 times a day for those times when they are both starving in the evening and my husband gives one a bottle of pumped milk while I nurse the other. Good luck. You can do this! Your supply will last as long as the babies keep demanding it from you!
congrats on your twins!! my husband and i just became first time parents to identical twin boys 5/12/2011 (their 3 months now)-it is absolutely amazing-double the fun/joy/blessings :) i just recently started breastfeeding and formula feeding due to their reflux but for the first 2 1/2 months i strictly breastfed. i found it easier to breastfeed them both at the same time and then i would also pump and store it in the fridge and freezer. i have A LOT frozen now. that way if i could put in a bottle if we were going out. sometimes i would even breastfeed and then pump afterwards or vice versa because i'd get so full. i found it easier to do it this way b/c it allowed me to keep them on the same schedule. i hope this helps some :) congrats again. good luck!
I just had twins 7 weeks ago and I am breastfeeding both. Your body will make the milk your babies need, it's what we moms do .Now that we are all on a good schedule, I feed them for about 20-25 minutes, burp them and then I pump for about 10 minutes on both sides. I don't get a lot but, it adds up and it helps build my milk supply. What I do is feed them at the same time, it takes some practice and took me about 4 weeks to master. I hold one in the football hold and one in a cradle hold and use my nursing pillow. I even have my hands free once all 3 of us get situated.
My best advice is to stick to a schedule, take all the help you can get, don't worry about laundry and dishes just take care of yourself, and nap when they do. Good luck and congrats on your little miracles, it is a great adventure and you should enjoy every second of it. Let me know if this helps, I am available if you want to chat.
I have tiwins(they are preemies,a few months old)I have been nursing a few months,mostly pumping and feeding them in a bottle....now my supply has dropped and will be forced to supplement and switch over to formula.
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Creamy chicken with asparagus & tarragon
Cooking timePrep: 10 mins Cook: 18 mins
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 4
A light and low calorie chicken casserole with silky herb sauce, greens and baby new potatoes
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Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 318
- protein
- 38g
- carbs
- 25g
- fat
- 7g
- saturates
- 3g
- fibre
- 4g
- sugar
- 6g
- salt
- 0.5g
- 500g baby new potatoes, halved
- 4 skinless chicken breasts
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 350ml chicken stock
- small bunch tarragon
- 175g asparagus, trimmed
- 3 tbsp reduced-fat crème fraîche
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- Cook the potatoes in a large pan of boiling water for 8-10 mins until tender, then drain and keep warm in the pan. Season the chicken with ground black pepper. Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan. Gently fry the chicken with the onion and garlic for 5 mins until both are lightly browned. Turn over the chicken once and stir the onion regularly.
- Pour over the stock, add 2 sprigs of tarragon and bring to a gentle simmer. Cook for 5 mins, then turn the chicken, add the asparagus and cook for 3 mins more. Chop the remaining tarragon.
- Stir the crème fraîche and tarragon into the pan with the chicken and heat through, stirring, for a few secs. Serve with the new potatoes.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2012
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Got so much tarragon in the garden that this recipe struck a chord, esp with Brit asparagus being so good right now. Took on board the comments re stock & made with around 150ml (for 2 people) & used seasoned flour, but didn't have creme fraiche just low fat cream cheese which worked very nicely - though upped the calorie intake no doubt! Tasty, will definitely do again.
I coated the chicken in seasoned flour before cooking and it thickened the sauce perfectly. Used soya equivalent of creme fraiche and it was absolutely gorgeous! The timings are wrong on the recipe for the chicken. Mine was still raw in the middle after following the recipe and had to cook it for longer but I suppose it depends on the size of chicken breast you use. Will definitely make this again though. Cheap, easy and tasty.
Made thiis one tonight on the side burner on my grill as it is too hot to use the stove. Regarding the runny sauce I coated the chicken in seasoned flour before browning it and that helped alot. I also added more sour cream then called for, made it very creamy and lovely. I did use frozen asparagus and it was fine, but realize I would rather have fresh (out of season now) or I could substitute cauliflower,fesh peas, broccoli whateveris in season and it would be as nice. Would definately make again. Oh yes, I also roasted the potatos on my grill while I cooked the chicken mixture. LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!


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In California, Lightweight Art Aragon is known as the "Golden Boy." He has a handsome profile, a flashy boxing style, and a smashing left that has knocked out half of his opponents. In Harlem, Lightweight Jimmy Carter is known by no nickname, has the plug-ugly looks of a club fighter, and has about as much crowd appeal as a store-window dummy in the rush hour. But Carter has some assets of his own: a deep pride in the lightweight title he took from Ike Williams in an upset last May, and, as the boxers say, "a pair of good hands." Last summer Carter met Aragon in a nontitle bout, and lost. Last week Jimmy Carter put his title on the line.*
The Golden Boy, 24, and three years younger than the champion, forced the fight for the first five rounds. He bobbed, jabbed, danced and feinted while Carter stolidly accepted his lumps, tossed back only a few retaliatory licks. But in Round 6, Carter opened up. A jarring left sent Golden Boy tumbling to the canvas for a count of three. Carter's slashing, two-fisted attack drove him from corner to corner. Aragon never won another round.
At the end of the fight, his left eye clamped tight, his right slashed, his lips swollen and his body a patchwork of welts, Golden Boy was a slightly tarnished matinee idol. Carter had also taken a beating: a cut over his eye took seven stitches, and may keep him out of action for a year. The $32,000 purse, most lucrative of his obscure career, would help heal the wound. But more important to Jimmy Carter was his title. In his first defense of it, he had come through like a real champion.
* Held in Los Angeles, it was the first "twilight" (7 p.m.) title fight in modern ring history, gave Eastern televiewers a chance to see the result before bedtime.
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Ruben Olivares,Chucho Castillo, Evan Armstrong & Jose Medel...1968
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The doctor shown with Robinson and Bobo Olson is the Hollywood Legion Stadium's regular doctor in weekly attendance, Dr. John Fahey.
And the shot of Wrigley Field stirred a memory.....yours truly was in charge of the Bobo Olson camp at the request of Bobo's manager for almost a month for that blockbuster show put on by the International Boxing Club in 1956. The event drew a terrific gate for those days, something totalling more then $230,000. Don Fraser handled the Robinson camp out at San Jacinto, thus we were reunited after having worked together at the Legion Stadium, he in my old job of Publicity and I as Matchmaker just one year earlier.
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Canela, was my son Tony's last amateur opponent, Tony was not to fight again until a year later when he turn pro because I couldn't fine an amateur in Southen California that was willing to get in the ring with him.
Monday, Aug. 01, 1949; The fight, in effect, was for charity. Referee Jack Dempsey gave his services free. Film Comedians Bud Abbott & Lou Costello promoted it as a benefit in aid of the youth foundation established by Costello after his infant son died in 1943. Lightweight Champion Ike Williams, a cool, sharpshooting Negro from New Jersey, whose manager is a good friend of Costello's, took only 7½% of the gate, although Enrique Bolanos, the Mexican-born challenger, got 17½%.
The buildup was satisfying and 19,000 people paid $108,000 to get into Los Angeles' Wrigley Field. The question was whether it would be a show or a contest. Champion Williams had beaten Bolanos twice beforebut the second time Williams had absorbed a stomach pounding and had won on a split decision. Last week there seemed to be an outside chance that Bolanos, an earnest, resourceful fighter, might tag Williams with a damaging shot or shade him on points.
Williams, who was voted 1948-8 "Fighter of the Year" by New York boxing writers, answered all questions in the first minute of the first round. He launched a whistling left that staggered Bolanos and drew blood from his mouth. In the second round, a jolting overhand right almost closed the challenger's left eye. Thereafter, Bolanos stumbled around the ring, as helpless against Williams as a matador fighting a bull with a knife & fork.
In the fourth, with Bolanos still on his feet, his manager jumped into the ring waving a towel. A moment later, the challenger slumped to the canvas and Referee Dempsey stopped the fight. The show would probably not have made an edifying spectacle for Costello's foundation kids, but it proved that Ike Williams still had the lightweight division well in hand.
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And yes, that's a photo of the original Main St. Gym that burned in 1951. It was also used as a boxing venue off and on, from 1926 through the early 1940s. I saw Baby Sal Soria box Hrman Ritterhaus in one of their many meetings back in 1930 as a guest of my uncles.
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POST Office users are being asked their views on plans to move Chard Post Office 150 metres up Fore Street.
People are being asked what they think of plans to shut the existing branch in Fore Street and opening up in an empty building just down the road.
A public consultation is underway until January 27 about siting the outlet in a cards and stationery shop due to open in 12 Fore Street.
Will Russell, Post Office regional network manager (South), said: "We understand how important having a post office is to residents in this area of Chard and we are confident the new branch will meet the needs of the local community and secure services for the future.
"The modernisation is part of a major investment programme to convert the Post Office network to new-style branches.
"This investment – the largest in the history of the Post Office – makes a commitment to no more branch closure programmes."
The new post office would have four serving positions – two openplan, one modern, screened counter and a Post Office serving point.
Opening hours would be extended by six hours a week to 8am to 6pm Mondays to Saturdays and 8.30am to 1pm on Sundays.
Chard Mayor Cllr Jenny Kenton welcomes the move from the existing premises at 37-39 Fore Street. She said: "I will be happy to see the larger shop taken up as it is in the very centre of the town and has been empty for a long time.
"The current post office is small and it is difficult to shop when there is a queue. "Of course, it does mean there will be another empty shop further down, so we do not gain, although it will possibly be taken up by a smaller retailer in the near future."
County councillor Jill Shortland said: "I am relieved that we will still have a post office in Chard town centre because at some point there was discussion that we might lose it.
"My instinctive reaction is, 'Thank you for keeping the post office open', but then I think 'for how long?' "What concerns me is if they move into the premises as part of another shop and that shop moves, we could lose the Post Office from the town centre.
"We need that draw to keep the town centre alive and I am still nervous that it could move out of town in the future."
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CANADIAN singer/songwriter Billy The Kid has arrived in the UK for her first UK tour after making a big name for herself in her home country. The Mail caught up with her to chat about her upcoming live shows and the release of her second full-length album Stars, Exploding.
VANCOUVER singer/songwriter Billy The Kid may not be a household name on these shores yet but she has certainly put in the hard yards to reach this point.
Real name Billy Pettinger, the singer, who turns 31 today, made her way in the industry collaborating with some top musicians to try and get her foot in the door, as well as fronting the band Billy and the Lost Boys and playing drums in a Ramones tribute band.
After her debut release The Lost Cause, Billy began a crowd sourcing campaign to fund her debut full-length album.
In addition to offering pre-orders with bonus material and specialised bundles, she travelled across the continent to play fund-raisers, anniversaries, birthday parties and private concerts, as well as going camping, white water rafting and rock climbing with fans.
The result was the appropriately titled Ours.
After working so hard just to get her first two solo ventures on record, Billy told the Mail getting new album Stars/Exploding to the shelves was a much easier ride.
She said: "It was easier just in relation to time as The Lost Cause and Ours took years to get out. Stars, Exploding was made in about two weeks and then released a couple months later.
"It's all work but the more you do anything the easier it gets, I guess."
Stars, Exploding is a more collaborative effort as well for Billy after really ploughing a lone furrow previously, particularly on Ours.
She worked with star producer Jamie Candiloro, who has worked in the past with the likes of REM, Ryan Adams and Willie Nelson.
She told the Mail how the pair came to work together and what it was like not being alone and relying on the skills of someone else for a change.
She said: "On Ours I was much more involved in the production aspect and wasn't working with anyone in terms of a 'producer' on that one. Stars, Exploding is more of a collaboration, sonically.
"After Ours I was working in a warehouse and recording on the weekends when I could afford it until one of my favourite producers in the industry (Candiloro) and I started communicating online.
"It was apparent I needed to work with this person as soon as possible so I started a fan-funding campaign overnight, locked myself in a room and wrote about 20 songs writing a week.
"The recording process was so easy – everything it should be. It was actually more like hanging out.
"I was into the idea of just enjoying the process, having laboured on every minute detail of Ours.
"Jamie is a brilliant multi-instrumentalist and just good company to be around. You appreciate those things more when you're making your third album."
Billy has just begun a nine-date tour of the UK, her first time playing venues in this country.
I asked her how the new material had been working with live audiences and whether she was looking forward to performing in the UK.
"I have only played one show since the album came out," she said. "All this time I have still been writing so I played something like six songs that aren't even on a record.
"I will be trying out lots of new material in the UK. I've honestly waited my whole life to visit.
"I did a trip to Europe a while ago where I played some shows and I purposely avoided the UK because I knew I wouldn't have the time I wanted to spend there on that particular trip. This time, I will.
"I have a little bit of a fanbase over in the UK but I am interested to see how it is doing, actually."
Being halfway around the world can be tough for a home-loving soul like Billy, as has been spending a lot of time on the road across the States.
However, Billy said although it can get repetitive she just loves the touring life.
She said: "I love it when it's new and in exciting places. Sometimes I find myself on the same highways 10 years later and that can be trying at time.
"But if that is the worst of my problems it is not really a problem. I love being in Europe though so touring becomes such a brand new adventure again."
If you take a trip to Billy The Kid's website you will see that she has just completed her aim of uploading her covers of 31 Ryan Adams songs in 31 days.
The link to Adams through her producer Candiloro was clearly not where her love for her fellow Canadian singer/songwriter began.
She said: "His music is a big inspiration to me. The 31 covers in 31 days project started in 2012 as kind of a New Year's Resolution.
"I never really learned any cover songs as a kid (or even as an adult) because I was always writing. I was a writer and always had too many songs instead of too few.
"So I made up this intensely laborious project with the intention of becoming a better musician. Ryan's my favourite songwriter so this year's version has been very special to me."
Talking about what the rest of 2013 has in store, Billy admitted she hopes to find her way back in the studio by the year's end.
She said: "I'm on the Vans Warped Tour in the summer, playing the Canadian Music Fest and then just touring any and every place I can.
"I will still be writing a lot so I am hoping to find a way to make another album soon."
Billy The Kid performs at Taylor's Music and Arts Centre in Coventry on Wednesday with tickets available from the venue. Her latest album Stars, Exploding is out now.


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John Brack (1920-1999) The new house 1953
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Important Australian Art from the Collection of Reg Grundy AC OBE and Joy Chambers-Grundy
Sydney, Overseas Passenger Terminal
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John Brack (1920-1999)
The new house 1953
signed and dated 'John Brack 53' lower right
oil on canvas laid down on board
x 55.8cm
(50 5/16
x 21 15/16in).
The collection of the artist
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
The Reg Grundy AC OBE and Joy Chambers-Grundy Collection, acquired in 1995
Paintings and Drawings by John Brack
, Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne, 27 October - November 1953, cat. no. 2
John Brack: Retrospective: Paintings and Drawings, 1945-1977
, Melville Hall, Australian National University, Canberra, 21 September 16 November 1977, cat. no. 6 (illus.)
John Brack: Selected Paintings 1947-1977
, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 15 March 1 April 1977, cat. no. 5
John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition
, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 10 December 1987 31 January 1988, cat. no. 10
Australian Art: Colonial to Contemporary
, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, May - June 1995, cat. no. 101 (illus. and cover)
After Van Gogh: Australian artists in homage to Vincent
, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, 6 September - 30 October 2005
John Brack Retrospective
, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 24 April 9 August 2009; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2 October 2009 31 January 2010
Alan McCulloch, 'The little man in paint',
, Melbourne, 27 October 1953 (illus.)
, Sydney, 4 November 1953
J.D. 'The art galleries: Roman Holiday',
Port Phillip Gazette
, Melbourne, vol. 2, no. 1, Autumn 1954, pp. 40-43
Robert Lindsay,
John Brack: A Retrospective Exhibition
, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987, p. 13, 27 (illus.)
Terry Smith, 'The yawn of the fawn decade',
Times on Sunday
, Sydney, 27 December 1987, p. 28 (illus.)
Sasha Grishin,
The Art of John Brack
, Oxford, 1990, vol. 2, ref. p. 4, p. 85 (illus.)
Tim Sowden, 'Streets of discontent: Artists and suburbia in the 1950s' in S. Ferber, C. Healy and C. McAuliffe (ed.),
Beasts of suburbia: Reinterpreting cultures in Australian suburbs
, Melbourne University Press, 1994, pp. 76-78, p. 89 (illus.)
Australian Art: Colonial to Contemporary
, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1995, p. 75 (illus.)
Chris McAuliffe,
Art and Suburbia
, Craftsman House, 1996, pp. 70-71, p. 23 (illus.)
Chris McAuliffe, 'John Brack's forgotten people',
Art and Australia
, vol. 35, no. 3, 1998, pp. 366-373
Kirsty Grant, et al,
John Brack Retrospective
, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2009, p. 145, 147 (illus.)
Collins St, 5p.m.
1955 is regarded as Brack's signature painting of the 1950s,
The new house
is, in its own quiet way, a more emphatic declaration of Brack's views on the prospects for Australian culture in the Menzies era. A softly-spoken manifesto in paint,
The new house
quietly unites autobiography, art theory and cultural criticism.
The new house
, Brack boldly tackled the question of what Australian art could be in the 1950s. His answer, both sophisticated and sceptical, emerged from his own passions as an artist, his observations of his suburban environment and a rather jaundiced view of the art of his peers. The painting aggressively dispensed with the two most obvious options at the time; epic, folkloric figuration and cosmopolitan abstraction. Bushrangers and explorers were replaced by the new pioneers, the young home buyers of the suburbs. As for abstraction, it had become generic, spreading "all over the world ... like suburban villas", Brack declared in a lecture delivered at the University of Melbourne, October 1953.
For Prime Minister Robert Menzies, the home was the bedrock of the Australian way of life: 'homes material, homes human, homes spiritual [were] the foundation of sanity and sobriety', he had pronounced in his 1944 book,
The forgotten people
. For Brack, such thinking presented a broadly cultural rather than narrowly political challenge: if the Australian spirit was now urban, materialist and domestic, what place was there for the experimentation and effrontery of art?
Brack's answers, in paint and in print, revealed an artist concerned that a simple embrace of modernism would not do. What meaning would romantic images of outlaws and impastoed explorers
in extremis
have in a culture that had domesticated an outsider like Vincent van Gogh? As Brack remarked in a 1953 Council of Adult Education lecture, "no one today is shocked by van Gogh reproductions of his pictures fill the land". And there above the mantelpiece of
The new house
hangs a reproduction of van Gogh's
Langlois Bridge
1888; a challenge not only to contemporary acolytes of agonistic modernism but also to Brack himself, whose Damascene moment as an aspiring artist had been an encounter with van Gogh prints in a Melbourne bookshop. The houseproud petit bourgeois depicted in the painting embody the narrow, self-satisfaction of suburban culture. But equally the self-satisfaction of the avant-garde, content to tend the flame of the very romanticism that had been tamed by consumer culture, was at issue.
Suburban life, too, made promises that could not easily be kept. Annual spending on housing fluctuated in the 1950s and aspiring home owners could not always be certain of the availability of loans, materials and tradesmen. Once colonised, Melbourne's new suburbs revealed the inadequacy of infrastructure planning. Companion pieces to
The new house
, such as
New houses
The unmade road
, showed subdivisions threaded through with muddy, unpaved streets. Brack's paintings echoed the laments of prominent architectural critic Robin Boyd, who complained of the aboraphobia of treeless suburbs, the lazy design of architect-free estates and the mud-spattered clothing of the commuter.
If, in Menzies' view, the heart of Australia was located in the home, Brack set about checking for a pulse. The happy couple in
The new house
occupy an austere interior; they are aspirational, by all means, but whether they will be rewarded is another matter. It is a
, after all, not a home. A house is a purchased dwelling, a unit of housing, a roof over their heads rather than a repository of rich familial bonds.
Time, an over-looked motif in Brack's art, introduces a subtle commentary on the character of Australian culture in the 1950s. It is marked directly by the clock on the mantelpiece; we witness perhaps, at 1.25pm, a post-prandial embrace after the successful delivery of the Sunday roast. It registers, indirectly and evocatively, in allusions to time's flow. The spindly daisies beside the clock must soon wilt; paired with a mechanical timepiece, they are a lyrical
memento mori
. The decor of the room speaks of another order of time; it is slightly out-of-date, implicitly contrasting the modernity of photographic spreads in home-maker magazines with the tag-along reality of the thrifty suburbanite. Even the van Gogh print evokes this domestic struggle with timeliness: fashionably 'ahead of the curve' in the late 1940s, the Post-Impressionist reproduction was a dated cliché by the mid-50s. Humourist Ross Campbell lamented that he had rushed to change his decor when he 'heard it was good taste to have a coloured copy of van Gogh's
. . . but at that moment everybody else bought one, too' (
Women's Weekly
, 16 July 1958).
And there's the nub of it; keeping up. The young homebuyer strives to keep up with modernity, to make a home of the kind awarded a prize by the
Women's Weekly
in April 1951, with an L-shaped lounge, Danish candlesticks, turquoise walls, a print of van Gogh's
and maybe one of Drysdale's 'out west' drawings. But they can't attain such heights, and fall back on the van Gogh print, alone there on a wall complying with the Cream Australia Policy, framed by the dilute Art Deco and trickle-down Arts and Crafts of 1940s furnishings. But were Australian artists keeping up any better, Brack asked? To retreat into outback mythology was to ignore Australia's modern urban trajectory. To take up abstraction was to subscribe to templated modernism. And to revive expressionism and surrealism was to return to versions of modernism completed decades earlier. Brack encapsulated this dilemma in
The new house
(and, in the same month that he exhibited the painting, declared his position in that lecture at the University). He was to spend the rest of the decade painting his way towards a solution.
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