The paradox of Nathan Thambu Paramanathan
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Article Title | The paradox of Nathan Thambu Paramanathan |
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ERA Journal ID | 9873 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Kerby, Martin (Author) and Barton, Georgina (Author) |
Journal Title | Australian Art Education |
Journal Citation | 39 (2), pp. 206-222 |
Number of Pages | 17 |
Year | 2018 |
Publisher | Australian Art Education |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 1032-1942 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.arteducation.org.au/current-and-previous-editions-member-downloads/217-volume-39-number-2-2018 |
Abstract | This article is a short biographical treatment of the life of Nathan Thambu Paramanathan, the inaugural president of Art Education Australia (AEA). It offers the reader an insight into his formative experiences in pre-war Kuala Lumpur, including his early exposure to the work of Dutch artist Meindert Hobbema, and then through the Japanese occupation, war time deprivation, and a post-war confrontation with the White Australia policy that made international headlines. Paramanathan now lives in retirement in Melbourne after a long and decorated career as an arts educator and a practicing artist. Though biography is often denigrated as something akin to fiction, it is nevertheless a means by which a reader can discern something of the “rainbow like intangibility” of a person’s inner life amidst the “granite like solidity of the facts”. |
Keywords | Art Education Australia (AEA), Australian International Student Program, art therapy, biography, Eric Erikson, Norman Holland, White Australia Policy |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 439999. Other history, heritage and archaeology not elsewhere classified |
399999. Other education not elsewhere classified | |
430303. Biography | |
Public Notes | c. Australian Institute of Art Education. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q4xy4/the-paradox-of-nathan-thambu-paramanathan
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