Mambo: Art Irritates Life (ATOM Study Guide)

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GBP 3.94
SKU:
SG1352
Year Levels:
8-12
Streaming Content:
Mambo: Art Irritates Life
Content Type:
Feature Documentary
Learning Areas:
English
Learning Areas:
Society and Culture
Learning Areas:
History
Learning Areas:
Media Studies
Learning Areas:
Art
Learning Areas:
Social Studies
Key Themes:
Art as Rebellion, Larrikinism and Australian Identity, Commercialisation of Counterculture, Freedom of Expression and Controversy, Collaboration and Collective Creativity, Art, Fashion, and Pop Culture, Cultural Representation, Legacy and Influence
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Product Overview

It was back in the days when artwork could get you into trouble. Mambo was a collective of comical and contrary graphic artists that specialised in laconic Australian humour. They ridiculed and sent up everything, including themselves, and became the nation's most popular art movement of the 1990s. Mambo began in a garage in inner Sydney, and fifteen years later grew in prominence to be the obvious choice to represent Australian culture of irreverence at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

The story of Mambo is about art connecting with a lot of people, about how we celebrated a bunch of troublemakers.

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This study guide is mainly aimed at middle to senior secondary school levels, with relevance to English, Social and Cultural History, Media Studies, Art and Social Sciences.