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Book Australian National Bibliography

Download or read book Australian National Bibliography written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ghost Nation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laurie Duggan
  • Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780702231896
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Ghost Nation written by Laurie Duggan and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vividly written account of Australia's visual arts from Federation through to the end of the Depression, the period from which the modernist movement evolved. Poet, Laurie Duggan, draws together areas of Australian cultural history which have formerly been treated through separate disciplines, eg modernism and feminism.

Book Colonial frontiers

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  • Author : Lynette Russell
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2017-03-01
  • ISBN : 1526123800
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Colonial frontiers written by Lynette Russell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-cultural encounters produce boundaries and frontiers. This book explores the formation, structure, and maintenance of boundaries and frontiers in settler colonies. The southern nations of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have a common military heritage as all three united to fight for the British Empire during the Boer and First World Wars. The book focuses on the southern latitudes and especially Australia and Australian historiography. Looking at cross-cultural interactions in the settler colonies, the book illuminates the formation of new boundaries and the interaction between settler societies and indigenous groups. It contends that the frontier zone is a hybrid space, a place where both indigene and invader come together on land that each one believes to be their own. The best way to approach the northern Cape frontier zone is via an understanding of the significance of the frontier in South African history. The book explores some ways in which discourses of a natural, prehistoric Aboriginality inform colonial representations of the Australian landscape and its inhabitants, both indigenous and immigrant. The missions of the London Missionary Society (LMS) in Polynesia and Australia are examined to explore the ways in which frontiers between British and antipodean cultures were negotiated in colonial textuality. The role of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand society is possibly the most important and controversial issue facing modern New Zealanders. The book also presents valuable insights into sexual politics, Aboriginal sovereignty, economics of Torres Strait maritime, and nomadism.

Book Reconstructing the Body

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  • Author : Ana Carden-Coyne
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2009-08-20
  • ISBN : 0191609382
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Reconstructing the Body written by Ana Carden-Coyne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves. Ten million dead, twenty million severe casualties, and eight million people with permanent disabilities - modern war inflicted pain and suffering with unsparing, mechanical efficiency. However, such horror was not the entire story. People also rebuilt their lives, their communities, and their bodies. From the ashes of war rose beauty, eroticism, and the promise of utopia. Ana Carden-Coyne investigates the cultures of resilience and the institutions of reconstruction in Britain, Australia, and the United States. Immersed in efforts to heal the consequences of violence and triumph over adversity, reconstruction inspired politicians, professionals, and individuals to transform themselves and their societies. Bodies were not to remain locked away as tortured memories. Instead, they became the subjects of outspoken debate, the objects of rehabilitation, and commodities of desire in global industries. Governments, physicians, beauty and body therapists, monument designers and visual artists looked to classicism and modernism as the tools for rebuilding civilization and its citizens. What better response to loss of life, limb, and mind than a body reconstructed?

Book Antipodean Antiquities

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  • Author : Marguerite Johnson
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-03-21
  • ISBN : 1350021253
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Antipodean Antiquities written by Marguerite Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the Lord of the Rings and Xena: Warrior Princess franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.

Book Dancing Naturally

Download or read book Dancing Naturally written by A. Carter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renewed interest in nature, the ancient Greeks, and the freedom of the body was to transform dance and physical culture in the early twentieth century. The book discusses the creative individuals and developments in science and other art forms that shaped the evolution of modern dance in its international context.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Sappho

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Sappho written by P. J. Finglass and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.

Book Picture this

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  • Author : Philip Hayward
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9781860205187
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Picture this written by Philip Hayward and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the proliferation of films, television programs, and videos about the arts, this book tackles how these media outlets have approached their subject.

Book The Modern Hercules

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  • Author : Alastair J.L. Blanshard
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2020-11-09
  • ISBN : 9004440062
  • Pages : 698 pages

Download or read book The Modern Hercules written by Alastair J.L. Blanshard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in western culture from the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring the hero’s transformations of identity and significance in a wide range of media.

Book The War and the Stampede

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  • Author : Michael ChristisKing
  • Publisher : WestBowPress
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 1490813012
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book The War and the Stampede written by Michael ChristisKing and published by WestBowPress. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven and hell collide in the epic battle described in this book. What is the battle about? In the order of importance, it is first about the glory of our God, whose name is holy and faithful. He must be glorified, and every other thing is secondary. Secondly, His supernatural love has upgraded the fallen sons of Adam to a place of supreme importance. It is not only that their eternal peace is at stake, but also that He has attached His own name and glory to their redemption. Whats more, He invested everythingincluding His own lifeto secure theirs, and yet, after all that divine investment, God left the execution and management of His great enterprise to the children of men so that men can reach men. If His people will take His business as seriously as He takes it and simply do what He tells them to do, they will reach their generation and the one after that. Through these divine illustrations and prophetic revelations, you can see how Satan works tirelessly to destroy men, women, and childrento take them with him to an eternal hell and rob God of His glory. See what our weapons are, how to fight Satan, and how to maintain the victory Jesus already purchased with His blood.

Book The Bulletin

Download or read book The Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treasures

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  • Author : Peter Yule
  • Publisher : Melbourne University
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Treasures written by Peter Yule and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pictorial and descriptive profile of the artistic artifacts housed in the University of Melbourne includes pieces ranging from Greek antiquity to the European old masters. Information is provided on costumes designed by Percy Grainger, furniture fashioned by Burley Griffin, illuminated manuscripts, and stained glass by Napier Waller. Essays written by staff and students of the university, research findings on new methods of interpretation, and profiles of the different collections and their reflection of the institutional values of the university offer a glimpse into Australia's distinct cultural heritage.

Book The Gods of Entropy

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  • Author : Deryck Hockley
  • Publisher : FriesenPress
  • Release : 2020-12-09
  • ISBN : 152556837X
  • Pages : 997 pages

Download or read book The Gods of Entropy written by Deryck Hockley and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gods of Entropy and the Fifth Yin follows Dyfed Lucifer, the only descendant of the multi-dimensional “Hyperborean Masters of the Little Known Universe” to be born on an “earth” that has a history remarkably similar to ours. His mission is to reduce the suffering of humans (the hoi polloi – the fuzz on the peach and the salt of the Earth) and give them the tools to think independently. Standing in the way of Dyfed’s mission are the Haploids, the world’s executive power elite who captain almost every ship of state. These Haploids are the acolytes of myth and responsible for cults, political ideology fallacies, and a corporate establishment that keeps the hoi polloi slaves to debt. Thankfully, as an immortal, Dyfed has time on his hands for this epic quest that extends from early history to a gloomy future that (despite the author’s disclaimer) bears a striking resemblance to the world at large today. Witty, sagacious, and downright spicy, The Gods of Entropy combines satire and surrealism to hold a mirror up to our own civilization that will make readers alternatively chortle and gasp, and most importantly, reflect.

Book Worshipping False Gods

Download or read book Worshipping False Gods written by Arun Shourie and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last couple of decades, B.R. Ambedkar has come to be idolized as no other political leader has. His statue is one of the largest in the Parliament complex. Political parties have reaped rich electoral dividends riding on his name. A decades-old cartoon of him in a textbook rocked Parliament for days recently, causing parties across the political spectrum to run for cover and call for the withdrawal of the 'offending' cartoon. In Worshipping False Gods, Arun Shourie employs his scholarly rigour to cast a critical look at the legend of Ambedkar. With his distinctive eye for detail, Shourie delves into archival records to ask pertinent questions: Did Ambedkar coordinate his opposition to the freedom struggle with the British? How does his approach to social change contrast with that of Mahatma Gandhi's? Did the Constitution spring from him or did it grow as a dynamic living organism? Passionately argued and based on a mountain of facts that it presents, Worshipping False Gods compels us to go behind the myths on which discourse is built in India today.

Book Hilda Rix Nicholas

Download or read book Hilda Rix Nicholas written by John Phillip Pigot and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilda Rix Nicholas was an assertive and accomplished woman who conscientiously set out to carve a place for herself alongside the most important male painters in Australia between the wars. The great strength of her work and her career lies in her determined quest for equal rights and in her passionate commitment to Australia at a time when women were excluded from its representation.

Book Harold Cazneaux

Download or read book Harold Cazneaux written by Harold Cazneaux and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parallel Visions

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  • Author : Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Parallel Visions written by Art Gallery of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: