Download or read book Under the Sun written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide for the Australian Centre for Photography exhibition. Featuring essays by curator Claire Monneraye and academic Martyn Jolly and featuring newly commissioned work of 15 contemporary Australian artists with accompanying text.

Download or read book Body Culture written by Isobel Crombie and published by Images Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Displays how Australia's most distinctive contribution to body culture was through the depiction of the lafesaver and the surfer, and that the popularity of these iconic figures was largely generated due to photography.

Download or read book Each Wild Idea written by Geoffrey Batchen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on photography and the medium's history and evolving identity. In Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen explores a wide range of photographic subjects, from the timing of the medium's invention to the various implications of cyberculture. Along the way, he reflects on contemporary art photography, the role of the vernacular in photography's history, and the Australianness of Australian photography. The essays all focus on a consideration of specific photographs—from a humble combination of baby photos and bronzed booties to a masterwork by Alfred Stieglitz. Although Batchen views each photograph within the context of broader social and political forces, he also engages its own distinctive formal attributes. In short, he sees photography as something that is simultaneously material and cultural. In an effort to evoke the lived experience of history, he frequently relies on sheer description as the mode of analysis, insisting that we look right at—rather than beyond—the photograph being discussed. A constant theme throughout the book is the question of photography's past, present, and future identity.

Download or read book Max Dupain s Australia written by Max Dupain and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Through the Lens written by and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Dupain, a famous Australian photographer well known for his architectural photography, once said words to the effect: A photographer of architecture takes the building cycle full circle in reducing a completed building to a similar scale of the orig

Download or read book Homes in the Sky written by Caroline Butler-Bowdon and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2007 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Produced to coincide with the exhibition Homes in the Sky held at the Museum of Sydney from 12 May to 26 August 2007"--T.p. verso.

Download or read book Photography and Australia written by Helen Ennis and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Photography and Australia' focuses on those aspects of photographic practice that can be considered distinctively Australian. It argues that the colonial experience has been crucial in shaping photographers' concerns.

Download or read book Australian Art written by Andrew Sayers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey uniquely covers both Aboriginal art and that of European Australians, providing a revealing examination of the interaction between the two. Painting, bark art, photography, rock art, sculpture, and the decorative arts are all fully explored to present the rich texture of Australian art traditions. Well-known artists such as Margaret Preston, Rover Thomas, and Sidney Nolan are all discussed, as are the natural history illustrators, Aboriginal draughtsmen, and pastellists, whose work is only now being brought to light by new research. Taking the European colonization of the continent in 1788 as his starting point, Sayers highlights important issues concerning colonial art and women artists in this fascinating new story of Australian art.

Download or read book Speaking of Us written by Barry York and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoes from the earliest years of the century mingle with the voices of contemporary Australia in this fascinating selection of excerpts from the Oral History Collection of the National Library of Australia. Humour and drama, sport, culture, politics and the media, work and leisure are all represented. There are stories of life from remote properties; there are comments on society and government policies; there are anecdotes and opinions.

Download or read book Max Dupain Photography written by Max Dupain and published by . This book was released on 1991-01 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Useless Beauty written by Ann Elias and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Australian art does not begin and end with landscape. This book puts flowers front and centre, because they have often been ignored in preference for more masculine themes. Departing from where studies of single flower artists leave off, Useless Beauty embraces the general topic of flowers in Australian art and shines new light on a slice of Australian art history that extends from 1880 to 1950. It is the first book of broad chronology to discuss Australian art through blossoms, which it does by addressing stories of major figures including Hans Heysen, Margaret Preston and Sidney Nolan, as well as specific objects such as surreal flowers, Aboriginal flowers and war flowers. Whether modern or conservative, the artists in this study shared an intellectual and emotional passion for flora. This was true for men as well as women, despite blossoms being a more traditionally feminine subject. Through spectacular reproductions of historical and contemporary artworks drawn from collections in Australia, the United States, Britain and New Zealand, Useless Beauty explores how flowers influenced the psyche, governed rituals, defined identity and brought a psychological dimension to the everyday. The peak years for flower-centricity in Australian art were between 1920 and 1940 when flowers were known as the apotheosis of useless beauty.

Download or read book Max Dupain Photographs Etc Reproductions written by Max DUPAIN and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Max Dupain written by Max Dupain and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Queensland. Parliament. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Stranger Cities Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind a Profile of Portal Modernity written by Peter Murphy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranger Cities explores the metaphysics of Australian society and the clash between its competing strands of romantic culture and classic civilization. The social expression, artistic resonance, economic significance, civic character, historic phases, mythic representations, creative antinomies, and imaginative contribution of these metaphysical fundamentals form the background of Australia’s distinctive urban civilization with its bustling stranger populations, ocean-facing portal cities, revealing art and architecture, and cyclical worlds of markets and industries, war and peace. Murphy portrays a classic eudemonic society whose dominant ethos of phlegmatic happiness vies with a subsidiary current of melancholic and choleric romanticism.