A CONTEMPORARY TRAGEDY
The title of the exhibition dealing with the circumstances that surround the disaster of a mass murder.
Museum of Modern Art (Melbourne) June - July 1993
Museum of Modern Art (Melbourne) June - July 1993
"A Contemporary Tragedy" is the title of this exhibition on issues surrounding a mass murder. The catalogue with reproductions of 17 works in b & w and colour has an introduction by Criminologist Prof. Duncan Chappell and essays by art historian, Jenny Zimmer and curator, Anna Clabburn.
"It highlights the wide range of issues that arise out of these questions in a graphic and extraordinary way." from the Introduction by Prof. Duncan Chappell, Director, The Australian Institute of Criminology |
"William Kelly's process of weaving art through life and community suggests his homage to the modus vivendi of past ethical engineers such as Leo Tolstoy, Herman Hesse, and Mohandas Gandhi. These men, like Kelly, were also curious about the physiognomy of their time and motivated to articulate a better way of being human."
from catalogue essay by Anna Clabburn (Curator)
"Kelly's project operates within the parallel traditions of moral theory and associated artistic endeavour."
from catalogue guest essay by Jenny Zimmer
from catalogue essay by Anna Clabburn (Curator)
"Kelly's project operates within the parallel traditions of moral theory and associated artistic endeavour."
from catalogue guest essay by Jenny Zimmer
WILLIAM KELLY: COLOGNE CATHEDRAL SERIES & WORKS IN COLLABORATION
Catalogue from an exhibition at the Lehigh University Art Galleries and Museum, (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA)
"William Kelly celebrates life. He is the ultimate humanist who sees life in anything that honors form and individuality - the human figure, architecture, and the universal mystery of light...
Kelly's lucid realism moves easily from the world of thought to the world of action, and he makes us collaborators with him along the way." Professor Ricardo Viera Director, Lehigh University, Museum 16 pages. 22 black & white and coloured images. Library of Congress Number - 90-060863 Published by: Lehigh University Museum Operations Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA 18015 |
ART AND HUMANIST IDEALS: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
In a radical departure from the conventional art history text, this unique volume brings together a number of the world's great artist/image-makers and thinkers on issues of art and its expression for contemporary humanity. With early seminal texts by novelist Thomas Mann, theologian Paul Tillich, art historian Herbert Read as a foundation, the content then moves through late 20th Century to post "September 11" material with contributions by Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Schwartz, Suzi Gablik, Vaclav Havel, Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin, Gunter Grass, Rob Watts, Doreen Mellor, Douglas Kellner, Robert Godfrey, Ricardo Levins Morales, Nigel Spivey and others. It bridges grass roots to academic cultural dialogue. Focusing on prints - limited editions, hand pulled posters and photographs - it includes images from poster collectives, work by Peter Schumann from the "cheap art movement", paperwork by Claire Van Vliet of Janus Press, photographs by Judith Joy Ross, Dominic Hsieh, and Nick Ut's powerful image "Vietnam Napalm", through to drawings and limited edition prints by leading artist printmakers from Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and North and South America.
It is a book that intelligently celebrates the engagement of art with life - with issues of social justice, peace, human rights - paying tribute to the seldom acknowledged contribution of Modern Art to humanist thought. In so doing, it reassesses what has been called "mainstream" art, placing it is its proper perspective as a tributary to the worldwide contribution of humanist art. Macmillan Publishers. |
VIOLENCE TO NON-VIOLENCE
Compiled by William Kelly With 17 print images from "Prints from The Peace Project"
"This remarkable and compelling anthology springs from the relationship between art and contemporary culture." Book Newsletter March 1994 "These writings, accompanied by William Kelly's haunting graphic imagery...lend a collective solidarity to what is more than a moral and intellectual stand-point." Michael Spens, Editor,Studio International (United Kingdom) |
Foreword by Douglas Kellner "They show us how a variety of people can integrate perspectives on non-violence into their lives...They challenge us to do likewise."
Introduction by Anne Deveson "There are many voices in this book. Some speak of great difficulties and consequences. Others speak of options. Hands are extended to others, images are placed in our minds. Daniel Berrigan tells us 'Peace is hard' and Arun Gandhi that "It may be slow but it is sure'."
"Art is not selfish and does not exist for its own purpose.Therefore art can also speak for human freedom, can raise to issue the senselessness of violence...That is what this book discusses in many different ways: shocking, fascinating and giving food for thought."
Jaap Bremer, Deputy Director,Rijksmuseum, Kroller-Muller (Netherlands)
"Violence to Non-Violence"
Compiled by William Kelly
136 Pages with 17 "Prints from The Peace Project" folio (black and white and colour).
ISBN (Harwood Academic Publishers) 3-7186-5467-9
ISBN (Craftsman House) 976-8097-88-4