The Angry Penguins And Its Impact On Modernism In Australian Literature And Art

An overview on the establishment of Australia’s modernism would be presented in this study, with a central focus on the developmental sequence of the Angry Penguins. The study highlights the significance of Angry Penguins in the active promotion of modernism in Australia, meanwhile gives due prominence to the resistances to the emergence of modernism, with the aim to shed light on how modernism endeavoured in difficulty to predominate in Australian literature and art.Angry Penguins, which was stimulated by the homonymous modernist magazine in the1940s, was a distinctive literary and artistic avant-garde movement. Thanks to the movement, a group of radical writers and painters emerged and brought numerous changes to the wartime Australian literature and art, although confronted with a heavy blow of the Ern Malley hoax. Anyway, the Angry Penguins should not be seen as a mere specimen of modernist experiments, but instead a leading force in the participation and realisation of Australian modernism that shed fresh light on the subsequent Australian arts.