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Dusan Marek b. 7 March 1926

Artist (Painter),
Artist (Draughtsman),
Artist (Screen Artist),
Artist (Draughtsman)

Painter, film maker and radical Surrealist. Came to Australia as a political refugee in 1948 and through his teaching as well as his art, had a profound affect on subsequent generations of artists.

Tags: Surrealism, Film maker, Immigrant, Contemporary art, Political refugee

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Murphy, Bernice (20 December 1975), 'Project 10: Dusan Marek’.
Murphy, Bernice (1979), 'Dusan Marek’.
Mould, Stephen (2007), 'Dusan Marek: a Landlocked Czech Surrealist in the Antipodes’.
http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/papersofsurrealism/journal6/acrobat%20files/articles/mouldpdf.pdf
Mould, Stephen (2008), 'THE BIRTH OF LOVE: Dušan and Voitre Marek – Artist brothers in Czechoslovakia and post-war Australia’.
http://moonarrow.nfshost.com/the-birth-of-love/

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