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in 1975, said ‘I don’t particularly like photographer’s photographs.’. After this period he returned to painting In 1982 with ‘The Red Card, Australia’, 1944—45’ based on a
Communist Party membership card he found in a book 20 years earlier. He continued plays on such printed ephemera, and it was included by Paul Taylor in Popism, a major exhibition at the NGV of Post-Pop art.
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Tonkin, S. When visual and performing arts align, Silver lined – Contemporary artists and the
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Campbell, J. Wide-Eyed: Melbourne, the US and Back Again, interview with Robert Rooney, John
Campbell's Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (catalogue) Glen Eira City Gallery, 1999
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Rooney, R. Robert Rooney, 21st
Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art catalogue essay, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2006
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Identities in Printmaking: The Print Collection of the Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, NSW, 2000
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Tomas, D. Golden oldies: four artists who were new and exciting in the 1960s and early 1970s and are still going strong, Art and
Australia, 50:4, 2013
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Crombie, I & Blainey, G. Sites of the Imagination: Contemporary Photographers View Melbourne and its People, National Gallery of Victoria, 1992
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McAuliffe, C. & Yule, P. (eds.). Treasures: Highlights of the Cultural Collections of the University of Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 2003
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Virgo, A. Australia: Limited Edition Prints, catalogue, The 16th Asian International Art Exhibition, Australian Print Workshop, 2001
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Smith, T. Transformation in Australian Art, Volume Two: The Twentieth Century – Modernism and Aboriginality, Craftsman House, 2002
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Barlow, G; Delaney, M; & McFarlane, K. (Eds.) Change – Monash University Museum of Art, Pub. MUMA, Melbourn 2010, p. 151
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McDonald, E. & Annear, J (eds.). What is This Thing Called Photography?: Australian Photography 1975-1985, Pluto Press, 2000
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Pestorius, D. Geometric Painting in Australia 1941–1997, catalogue, University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, 1997
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Green, C. & Smith, J. (curators). Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968–2002, catalogue, Ian Potter Centre: NGV, Australia, 2002
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Burt, W. Thirty Years of Australian Experimental Music 1963–1993, Sounds Australian: Journal of Australian Music, Autumn 1993
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Stanhope, Z. The Persistence of Pop: Works from the Monash University Collection, catalogue, Monash University Gallery, 1999
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Stanhope, Z. The Persistence of Pop: Works from the Monash University Collection, catalogue, Monash University Gallery, 1999
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Whiteoak, J. & Scott-Maxwell, A. (eds.). Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia, Currency House, 2003
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McDonald, K. Contemporary print collecting: Melbourne's print workshops and publishers, Art and Australia, 40:2, 2002
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Holt, S. & Murray, J. Luna Park and the Art of Mass Delirium, catalogue, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1998–1999
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Reid, B. & Underhill, N. (eds.) Letters to John Reed: Defining Australian Cultural Life 1920–1981, Viking, 2001
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Palmer, D. The order of things: the edition and the series in contemporary photomedia, Photophile 67, December 2002
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Nicholson, H. Avant-Gardism for Children, catalogue, University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, 1999
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McCulloch, S. Focus on structure: Highlighting our modern past, The Australian Financial Review, 23 March 2006
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Lancashire, R. Painting of the Week: No: 8, What Price Victory? (1983), Robert Rooney’, The Age, 21 May 2002
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Wadelton, D. From ‘Red Rattlers’ to Lara Croft, Interview with Robert Rooney, Art and Australia, 38/2, 2000
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Rhodes, K. The Camera is a Dumb Recording Device; Robert Rooney and the serial photographs in retrospective
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Catalano, G. Who's the Artist? Gary Catalano interview with Robert Rooney, Art Monthly Australia, June 1994
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Duncan, J. From the Homefront: Robert Rooney: Works 1953–1988, catalogue, Monash University Gallery, 1990
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Hartigan, P., Robert Rooney's out of the ordinary photography, That Saturday Paper, September 27, 2014
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Grey, A. (ed). Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, 2002
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Crawford, A. Acquisitions in Australian Art Collector, Issue 47 – January–March 2009, pp. 134–135
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Gennochio, B. (ed.). The Art of Persuasion: Australian Art Criticism 1950–2001, Craftsman House, 2003
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Ferber, S., Healy, C. & McAuliffe, C. (ed). Beasts of Suburbia, Melbourne University Press, 1994
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Catalano, G. Rooney retrospective reveals the enigma of a straight-shooter, The Age, 7 November 1990
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Whiteoak, J. Playing ad Lib: Improvisatory Music in Australia 1836–1970, Currency Press, 1999
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Harding L, Cramer, S, Cubism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2010
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Engberg, J. Downtown: Ruscha, Rooney, Arkley, catalogue, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1995
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Colquhoun, B. The Lure of Light, interview with Robert Rooney, Art and Australia, 39/2, 2001
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Clabburn, A. Bizarreness seen as if for the first time, The Australian, 19 February 2001
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Allen, C. Art in Australia: From Colonization to Postmodernism’, Thames and Hudson, 1997
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Nelson, R. Contemporary artists upstaging with understatement, The Age, 4 October 1995
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Holt, S. Just for Fun: Images of Luna Park and St Kilda, Art and Australia, 34:4, 1997
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Allen, C. Conceptual Ascetic, Review, Weekend Australian, 5–6 February 2011
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Makin, J. The way of all flesh, The Herald Sun, 17 June 2002
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Rogers, J. The Art of Knitting, Angus & Robertson, 1991
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