Download or read book A Thousand Miles Beyond written by Anthony Sawrey and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HUGH Sawrey (1919-1999) was one of Australia's most well-known artists during his lifetime. In a professional career that spanned nearly 35 years, he produced an enormous volume of work depicting scenes of the outback and the pastoral industries that operated there.From the time he left school, his formative years were taken up with a succession of low paying itinerant jobs across rural Australia. From shearing to stock work, he experienced first-hand many of the subjects he later included on his canvases. While his creative abilities were evident from the outset, drawing and painting could only be conducted in downtime, often with rudimentary materials, and he never had the opportunity to properly develop his craft until well into his 40s. However, by the 1960s Hugh Sawrey managed to acquire some formal training and presented his first solo show in Brisbane in 1965. His works struck a chord with local collectors and he quickly found recognition. Interest continued to build in his work over subsequent years and this allowed him to develop and hone the quality of his output. From the very start, horses were the foundation stones of many of his representations of rural life and early 20th century society. And over time he focused his painting abilities on their representation in ever more dynamic and expressive ways. Today, 20 years after his death, it is the depiction of the horse that is his most enduring legacy in the world of art. During his life there were few Australian artists that could match his abilities to capture the weight, strength and personality of the horse and their symbiotic relationship to people. And today, long after working horses have been largely replaced by machinery, the equine paintings of Hugh Sawrey stand as one of Australian Art's most extensive contributions to this historical genre. A thousand Miles Beyond showcases a wide range of equine themed work covering his professional working life from 1965 to 1991 and includes a detailed essay placing his works in a larger Australian visual art context. Edited by Anthony Sawrey.
Download or read book The Art of Hugh Sawrey written by Hugh Sawrey and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reef Madness written by Ernest Hunter and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a tale that doesn't seem like it would be a winner; an improbable proposition of a ten-mile reef of gold in the middle of the continent, a cabal of scheming investors, a farrago of poor planning and preposterous publicity, the fiasco of the prematurely celebrated triumph of technology over unforgiving terrain, a dead prospector - and no gold. The Central Australian Gold Exploration Company had it all, and Lasseter's Last Ride was in the stores before the final chapter of the real-life debacle had closed. It was a runaway success. Angus and Robertson sold three million copies of Ion Idriess' sixty-some books before he died in 1979. But in 1931, as he was working on what would be Lasseter's Last Ride, he was looking for an angle. In filling the gaps between the few facts with detailed descriptions of lands and people he had never seen, he found it - and promoted it - in Magic and Mystery. Idriess' fictional account of the last months of the life of Harold Bell Lasseter gave birth to a legend that has repeated in dozens of books, films, poems, podcasts, websites and exhibitions, is memorialised in the names of a highway and a casino, and has spawned searches and scams that continue nearly a century later. Idriess was probably surprised at its success and chose not to tamper with a winning formula when inconvenient material soon emerged. To do that he had to control the evidence and continued to insist on his narrative's unimpeachable adherence to fact. Reef Madness exposes how Idriess confected his first successful book and why the story of a failed prospector became a quintessentially Australian myth.
Download or read book Celebrating the Nation written by Tony Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the Nation offers the first major critical retrospective on Australia's Bicentenary. The editors have collected a series of essays focusing on the different ways in which 1988 was celebrated. From the soccer Gold Cup to literary commissions, from Expo 88 to the Travelling Exhibition and the Stockman's Hall of Fame, it examines the cultural and ideological frameworks which shaped the discourses and rhetoric of those celebrations. The contributors also put the Australian Bicentenary of 1988 in historical and international perspective, comparing the celebrations of 1988 with earlier Australian anniversary celebrations, and with recent national celebrations in France, Canada and the United States. Drawing on the findings of a major research project organised by the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies at Griffith University, Celebrating the Nation provides a provocative and insightful analysis of the cultural and political processes through which modern nations organise and symbolise their histories and identities.
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Download or read book Offbeat Australia written by David Astle and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you sick of the same old tourist spots like the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House? Do you own too many happy snaps of koalas and kangaroos? Offbeat Australia is the guide to the weird and wonderful attractions that most tourists miss.Explore the odd places that make Australia truly offbeat. Find out where you can: sleep with lionsjoin a riverboat postman on his routerent a cave for a nightentertain the kids at gruesome hideouts, quirky mazes and alien cratersMixing travel with trivia, history with mystery, Offbeat Australia is the ideal glove-box companion as well as a fascinating read for the armchair traveller.
Download or read book The Publican s Wife written by Lori Patrick and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Lori Patrick’s life story. The story starts with Lori’s dairy farming childhood during World War II, outlining her parents’ struggles raising eight children during tough times. After a stint working on the farm, Lori moves to the bright lights of the city and into the family of her future husband Barrie Patrick who she met working at the Queensland Times newspaper. Barrie’s family led a flamboyant lifestyle in stark contrast to her own. Barrie’s father Ern was the Queensland Times editor and his mother Eva, the effervescent life of the party. They introduced Lori to new experiences, including holidaying on Noosa’s Hastings Street when it was a strip of bitumen in the sand. After they wed, Lori and Barrie went in search of success in Outback Queensland where they worked as a ringer and governess and later went on to buy the famous Blue Heeler Hotel in Kynuna. The pub tested their strength, but they overcome adversities to put the town on the map as a tourist destination. The main attraction was their home-grown entertainment that included Barrie holding up tourist coaches with a shotgun and cracking a cigarette out of Lori’s mouth, often for the benefit of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. This all came to an end when they buried their 20-year-old son who was killed by a drunk driver. This tragic event was too much and they returned to South-East Queensland. Following Barrie’s death, Lori went on to travel the world and continue her search for personal success.
Download or read book Land Settlement in Early Tasmania written by Sharon Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed examination of land alienation and land use by white settlers in an Australian colony. It treats the first decades of settlement in Van Diemen's Land, encompassing the effects of the European invasion on Aboriginal society, the early history of environmental degradation, the island's society history and the growth of primary industry. The book presents vivid insights into nineteenth-century society, where wool was so useless that it was burnt, and farmers lived in fear of bushrangers and Aborigines. We see how individuals were constrained by the rigid expectations of race, class and gender in a society where no white man ever stood trial for rape or murder of a black. Drawing on contemporary diaries and letters, as well as government statistics, manuals for intending settlers and newspaper reports, Sharon Morgan has built up a comprehensive picture of the significance of landscape and land use in early colonial society.
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