Daniel Thomas (masanin tarihin fasaha)

**Daniel Rhys Thomas** AM (an haife shi a shekara ta 1931) masanin tarihin fasaha ne na ƙasar Ostiraliya, mai kula da fasaha, marubuci, mai sukar fasaha, kuma darektan gidan tarihi.

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Daniel Thomas a Latrobe, kusa da Devonport, Tasmania a ranar 1 ga Mayu, 1931, kuma yana da shekaru takwas, an buga wasiƙarsa a sashen yara na Madubin Matar Australiya mai suna 'Piccaninnies Pages'. Ya ƙaura zuwa babban yankin ƙasar kuma ya yi karatu a Makarantar Grammar Geelong, inda Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, wani mai fasaha na Bauhaus wanda ya zo Ostiraliya a matsayin baƙo a  ya koyar da shi. Ya tuna malaminsa a fitowar *Fasaha da Ostiraliya ta hunturu ta 1993:*Mutumin mai natsuwa da shiru - mai adalci har ya haskaka da hasken tsarkaka a cikin tagogi masu launi - yana wucewa. Wata rana ina kallon wani littafi game da Paul Klee. Hirschfeld ya lura, kuma ya yi aikin sa kai cewa ya san, kuma ya yi aiki, tare da Klee, da kuma Kandinsky, wanda na san shi wani ƙwararren zamani ne. Na yi farin ciki sosai. Ba zato ba tsammani ganin alaƙar salo tsakanin fasahar Klee, wacce aka zana a cikin littattafai, da launin ruwan Hirschfeld-Mack da aka rataye a ƙofar gidansa, wani abu ne da ya faru a tarihin fasaha, na kwararar siffofi da ra'ayoyi ta lokaci da wuri.A lokacin ƙuruciyarsa, Thomas ya ziyarci Tsakiyar Ostiraliya inda ya haɗu da zane-zane na First Nations kuma ya haɗu da mai zane-zanen ruwa Albert Namatjira. Bayan karatunsa na sakandare, a shekarar 1952 Thomas ya ƙaura zuwa Ingila ya yi karatun tarihin zamani a Jami'ar Oxford, inda ya kammala karatunsa a shekarar 1956. Wannan horon tarihi, maimakon nazarin tarihi na fasaha, ya samar da harsashin aikinsa na gaba a fannin tsara zane-zane da gudanarwa.

## Sana'ar ƙwararru
A shekarar 1958, an naɗa Thomas a matsayin mataimakin mai kula da gidajen tarihi na New South Wales, naɗinsa ya yi daidai da cire "National" daga sunan gidan tarihi. Daga baya Thomas ya lura cewa a wannan lokacin, Gidan Tarihi na NSW ya fuskanci ƙalubale masu amfani, ciki har da matsalolin ababen more rayuwa da ƙuntatawa na tattarawa idan aka kwatanta da sauran gidajen tarihi na jihar.

Thomas ya ci gaba a cikin makarantar, a matsayin Mataimakin Darakta,  kuma Babban Mai Kula da Fasaha  kuma daga ƙarshe aka naɗa shi Mai Kula da Fasaha ta Australiya. Misali na farko na aikin jarida na fasaha, wani tarihin rayuwar Lionel Lindsay, ya bayyana a *Hemisphere: Mujallar Asiya-Australian.* A shekarar 1966 ya ziyarci Amurka a kan wata 9 na Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship don yin nazarin fasahar zamani a can, ya haɗu da Clement Meadmore, kuma ya ziyarci gidajen tarihi a Rasha, Ingila, da Scandinavia,   wanda ya kai ga shirya wani baje kolin yawon buɗe ido na Shekaru *Biyu* *na Zane-zanen Amurka 1945-1965*, a Gidan Tarihi na New South Wales daga 26 ga Yuli zuwa 9 ga Agusta 1967.  Thomas, wanda a lokacin ya kasance mai sukar fasaha a Sydney Morning Herald, ya tallata wasan kwaikwayon da himma,  wanda aka yaba da gabatar da masu sauraron Australiya ga zane-zane na geometric da Abstract Expressionism kuma a matsayin bayanin Green:*Shekaru 20* sun fi faruwa ne sakamakon tsarin duniya na mutane uku masu ra'ayin duniya: darektan NGV, Eric Westbrook ; jami'in baje kolinsa, John Stringer; da Daniel Thomas, wani matashi mai kuzari a AGNSW. Ba tare da tsarin duniya ba, karatu mai faɗi da tafiye-tafiye na kewaye, da ba a ga wannan baje kolin ba: sun yi aiki a cikin yanar gizo na hulɗar ƙasashen waje. Babban mai shiga tsakani shine mai sassaka ɗan ƙasar Australiya, Clement Meadmore, wanda ya ƙaura zuwa New York a 1963.A lokacin da yake aiki a shekarar 1972, Thomas ya shirya Tashar Zane-zane ta New South Wales ta Farko ta Duniya da aka Gudanar, zuwa ga gidajen tarihi da tarin kayan tarihi a Amurka, [undefined] ya fara tattara hotunan da aka naɗa Gael Newton a matsayin mai kula da gidauniya a shekarar 1974, [undefined] kuma a shekarar 1975, matsayinsa na mai kula da Landscape na Australiya 1802-1975 ya haifar da musayar al'adu lokacin da ya yi rangadin zuwa China: "mun sake rubuta tarihin shimfidar wurare na Australiya a cikin wannan baje kolin," an ruwaito yana cewa.[1] An fitar da Tsarin Zane-zane na Australiya: Tarin Joseph Brown a shekarar 1973 kuma lokacin da a shekarar 1982 Richard Haese ya sake duba bugu na biyu a cikin Art and Australia ya yi tambaya:

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