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Book Augustus Earle  1793 1838

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  • Author : Rex Nan Kivell Collection
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Augustus Earle 1793 1838 written by Rex Nan Kivell Collection and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Augustus Earle  1793 1838

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  • Author : National Library of Australia
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 26 pages

Download or read book Augustus Earle 1793 1838 written by National Library of Australia and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of 161 items, including painting of Bungaree, native chief of N.S.W., camp near Port Stevens, natives from Wellington Valley, family group, native in bark hut, man and woman, meeting of tribes at Parramatta, N.S.W. chief painted for dance.

Book Wandering Artist  Augustus Earle s Travels Around the World 1820 29

Download or read book Wandering Artist Augustus Earle s Travels Around the World 1820 29 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Library of Australia presents information on the exhibition about English artist Augustus Earle (1793-1838). Earle is believed by many to have been the first professionally trained artist to travel to each of the five continents and paint his experiences. The library includes a timeline of events in his life and pictures of paintings by Earle.

Book Augustus Earle  1793 1838

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rex Nan Kivell Collection
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 26 pages

Download or read book Augustus Earle 1793 1838 written by Rex Nan Kivell Collection and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Augustus Earle

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  • Publisher : National Library Australia
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 0859676315
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book Augustus Earle written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1980 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus Earle (1793–1838) was born to travel and to paint. Living in the era before photography, Earle was one of the world’s most irrepressible travel artists. His paintings are valuable both as works of art and as documentary records of historic and ethnographic significance. This publication gives an overview of some of Earle’s most significant works held by the National Library of Australia.

Book A Narrative of a Nine Months  Residence in New Zealand in 1827

Download or read book A Narrative of a Nine Months Residence in New Zealand in 1827 written by Augustus Earle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus Earle (c. 1793 - 1838) was a London-born travel artist. Unlike earlier artists who worked outside Europe and were employed on voyages of exploration or worked abroad for wealthy, often aristocratic patrons, Earle was able to operate quite independently - able to combine his lust for travel with an ability to earn a living through art. The unique body of work he produced during his travels comprises one of the most significant documentary records of the effects of European contact and colonisation during the early nineteenth century.

Book A Narrative of a Nine Months  Residence in New Zealand in 1827

Download or read book A Narrative of a Nine Months Residence in New Zealand in 1827 written by Augustus Earle and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus Earle (1793-1838) was a professional watercolour artist specialising in colonial themes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from the age of thirteen and in 1815 travelled to the Mediterranean.

Book The World Upside Down

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : National Library Australia
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0642107130
  • Pages : 67 pages

Download or read book The World Upside Down written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2000 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Upside Down: Australia 1788-1830 draws on the National Library of Australia’s collections to explore some of the many fascinating aspects of life and art in colonial Australia.

Book Augustus Earle

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  • Author : Augustus Earle
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Augustus Earle written by Augustus Earle and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strange Country

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  • Author : Patrick McCaughey
  • Publisher : Miegunyah Press
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9780522861204
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Strange Country written by Patrick McCaughey and published by Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Painting matters to Australia and Australians as it does in few other countries. It has formed our consciousness, our sense of where we come from, and who we are. It cries out for wider recognition and acknowledgement.' - Patrick McCaughey Why has Australia, an island continent with a small population, produced such original and powerful art? And why is it so little known beyond our shores? Strange Country: Why Australian Painting Matters is Patrick McCaughey's answer.

Book First Fleet Surgeon

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  • Author : David Hill
  • Publisher : National Library of Australia
  • Release : 2015-05-01
  • ISBN : 0642278628
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book First Fleet Surgeon written by David Hill and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a single leather-bound volume of 238 unlined pages of parchment, Surgeon Arthur Bowes Smyth describes his two-and-a-half year journey with the First Fleet from Portsmouth in England to the new colony in Australia and back. He is a frank, articulate and observant writer, and his diary, a treasure of the National Library of Australia, covers life at sea, stopovers in the slave port of Rio de Janeiro and the tropical paradise of Tahiti, and three months of early settlement in Australia. As surgeon to more than 100 convict women on the Lady Penrhyn, Bowes Smyth gives an insight into the plight of these women, sentenced to transportation, and their children. Their voyage was marked by seasickness, miscarriage, infant deaths, a diet of salted meat and dry hardtack biscuits, and cruel punishment from thumb screws to gagging and flogging with a cat-o’-nine-tails. When they finally set foot on Australian soil, their travails did not end, being set upon by drunken sailors and crew in a ‘scene of debauchery and riot’. Bowes Smyth also describes medical incidents that would make a modern reader squirm, from extracting a ‘jigger worm’ from his own foot to a scurvy outbreak which resulted in bleeding noses, contracted muscles, emaciated bodies and swollen, blackening limbs. There are moments of high drama when mountainous seas threaten to overturn the ship or when passengers fall overboard, as well as calm days at sea spotting porpoises, whales, seals and all manner of sea birds. Upon finally reaching Botany Bay, Bowes Smyth describes ‘the joy which possessed every breast upon so long wished for an event’. He details early encounters with Aboriginal people and the struggles in setting up the new colony, which was plagued from the outset by food shortages, outbreaks of disease and crop failures. He also describes the promiscuity and lax morals of the convicts with typical flair, declaring their audacity ‘not to be equalled amongst a set of villains in any other part of the globe’. In First Fleet Surgeon, author David Hill brings to life the voyage of the Lady Penrhyn and the early months of settlement at Port Jackson (modern-day Sydney) through Bowes Smyth’s colourful language and frank anecdotes. Each chapter includes a page of Bowes Smyth’s handwritten diary entries accompanied by a full transcript, and is richly illustrated with paintings, lithographs and maps from the National Library of Australia’s collection. Information boxes on subjects such as eighteenth-century medical knowledge, brewing beer on board, and a surgeon’s typical day provide context to Bowes Smyth’s story.

Book Abolitionist Places

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  • Author : Martha Schoolman
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-10-20
  • ISBN : 1317976932
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Abolitionist Places written by Martha Schoolman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution to Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic, some of the most influential conceptualizations of the Atlantic World have taken the movements of individuals and transnational organizations working to advocate the abolition of slavery as their material basis. This unique, interdisciplinary collection of essays provides diverse new approaches to examining the abolitionist Atlantic. With contributions from an international roster of historians, literary scholars, and specialists in the history of art, this book provides case studies in the connections between abolitionism and material spatial practice in literature, theory, history and memory. This volume covers a wide range of topics and themes, including the circum-Atlantic itineraries of abolitionist artists and activists; precise locations such as Paris and Chatham, Ontario where abolitionists congregated to speculate over the future of, and hatch emigration plans to, sites in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean; and the reimagining of abolitionist places in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and public art. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

Book Harlequin Empire

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  • Author : David Worrall
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-09-30
  • ISBN : 1317315480
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Harlequin Empire written by David Worrall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment.

Book True Light and Shade

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  • Author : Professor John Maynard
  • Publisher : National Library of Australia
  • Release : 2014-11-01
  • ISBN : 0642277087
  • Pages : 175 pages

Download or read book True Light and Shade written by Professor John Maynard and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Light and Shade is filled with beautiful images by convict artist Joseph Lycett that powerfully capture in intimate detail Aboriginal life, a rare record of Aboriginal people within the vicinity of Newcastle and how they adapted to European settlement before cultural destruction impacted on these groups. John Maynard writes an engaging short biography of Lycett and his life in Australia and follows this with a detailed commentary on each of the 20 images in the album. Each image is reproduced in full on a double page spread and then, on the spreads following, details have been enlarged to accompany John's text as he takes us through exactly what is happening in every picture: ceremony, hunting and fishing, carrying food (carving up whalemeat), land management and burning, interactions with Europeans, family life, dances, funeral rituals, and punishment. When you return again to examine the full image, you see it in a completely different light. John also includes written records from the time that corroborate Lycett's views. Some dreamtime stories connected with the areas Lycett depicted are also included, with accompanying Indigenous art. One story explains the earthquakes in the area (kangaroo jumping up and down). The title quote ‘true light and shade’ comes from Lycett’s words: ‘I consider a complete drawing to be an accurate delineation of anything with its true light and shade.’ As a Worimi man from the Newcastle/Port Stephens region, John Maynard brings his own knowledge and insight to his exploration of the drawings, and to the fascinating character of Lycett himself. John is currently a Director at the Wollotuka Institute of Aboriginal Studies at the University of Newcastle and Chair of Indigenous History. He has held several major positions, including as Deputy Chairperson of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and Deputy Chair Humanities, National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network.

Book Drawing Investigations

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  • Author : Sarah Casey
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-06-11
  • ISBN : 1350164542
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Drawing Investigations written by Sarah Casey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using close visual analysis of drawings, artist interviews, critical analysis and exegesis, Drawing Investigations examines how artists use drawing as an investigative tool to reveal information that would otherwise remain unseen and unnoticed. How does drawing add shape to ideas? How does the artist accommodate to challenges and restraints of a particular environment? To what extent is a drawing complementary and continuous with its subject and where is it disruptive and provocative? Casey and Davies address these questions while focusing on artists working collaboratively and the use of drawing in challenging or unexpected environments. Drawing Investigations evaluates the emergence of a way of thinking among an otherwise disconnected group of artists by exploring commonalities in the application of analytical drawing to the natural world, urban environment, social forces and lived experience. Examples represent a spectrum of research in international contexts: an oceanographic Institute in California, the archives of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, the Antarctic Survey, geothermal research in Japan and the Kurdish diaspora in Iraq. Issues are situated in the contemporary theory and practice of drawing including relationships to historical precedents. By exploring drawing's capacity to capture and describe experience, to sharpen visual faculties and to bridge embodied and conceptual knowledge, Drawing Investigations offers a fresh critical perspective on contemporary drawing practice.

Book Geology and Religion

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  • Author : Martina Kölbl-Ebert
  • Publisher : Geological Society of London
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781862392694
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Geology and Religion written by Martina Kölbl-Ebert and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses this long-standing relationship from a historical point of view, which in the past has been sometimes indifferent, sometimes fruitful and sometimes full of conflict. The relationship continues well into the present. While Christian fundamentalists attack evolution and related palaeontological findings as well as the geological evidence of the age of the Earth, mainstream theologians strive for a fruitful dialogue between science and religion. Much of what is written and discussed today can only be understood, when the historical perspective is added. This book considers the following topics: the development of geology from mythological approaches towards the European Enlightenment, Biblical or Geological Flood and the age of the Earth, geology within 'religious' organizations, biographical case studies of geological clerics and religious geologists, religion and evolution, historical aspects of creationism and its motives.

Book Empire of Political Thought

Download or read book Empire of Political Thought written by Bruce Buchan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the tasks of governing them within the terms of Western political thought. It emphasises how the framework of ideas drawn from the traditions of Western political thought was employed in the imperial government of Indigenous peoples.