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Book The Shop

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Joseph Wheeler Selleck
  • Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780522850512
  • Pages : 892 pages

Download or read book The Shop written by Richard Joseph Wheeler Selleck and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Telling as much a social, educational, and cultural story as institutional history, this detailed account chronicles the ideological patterns, internal and countrywide conflicts, and student experiences at the University of Melbourne from 1850 to 1939. The daily life of staff, professors, and students are recounted during times of turmoil and peace in Australia, including the depression of the 1890s and World War I. The account offers a window into the pedagogical conflicts and research achievements of one of Australia's oldest continuing educational institutions."

Book The Oil Paintings of Arthur Streeton in the National Gallery of Australia

Download or read book The Oil Paintings of Arthur Streeton in the National Gallery of Australia written by Mary Eagle and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication focuses on the Gallery's collection of 46 Streeton works ranging from Sandrige (painted on cigar-box wood in 1884) through to his late canvas In a London garden c1934. Tracing Streeton's career, the book tells how he painted his youthful works of the 1880s and 90s alongside artist friends Charles Condor and Tom Roberts--camping in a farmhouse overlooking the Yarra River at Heidelberg, near Melbourne, and then (with Roberts) on the shores of Sydney harbour. He painted in London from 1897, before returning to spend the last two decades of his life working in Melbourne, where his late work evoked a peaceful pastoral Australia.

Book The Colonial Earth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Bonyhady
  • Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
  • Release : 2003-04-01
  • ISBN : 9780522850536
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book The Colonial Earth written by Tim Bonyhady and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using the work of great Australian painters and poets as an entry point, this cultural study counters the popular myth that early colonial settlers were environmentally irresponsible and offers both aesthetic and historical evidence that suggests nature always figured prominently in the Australian national consciousness. Preserving endangered species, protecting forests, maintaining public land rights, and staving off climate change were at issue in the first environmental law of Australia enacted in 1788. Parlimentary debates, personal observations, and artistic renderings explore the texture and dimensions of early Australian environmentalism."

Book Visual Ephemera

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anita Callaway
  • Publisher : UNSW Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780868406343
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Visual Ephemera written by Anita Callaway and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of theatrical arts in 19th-century Australia, this book documents varieties of visual culture that until now have remained unrecorded or been dismissed as irrelevant to the history of Australian art.

Book Useless Beauty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Elias
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2015-10-05
  • ISBN : 144388457X
  • Pages : 332 pages

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.

Book Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection  Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime

Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime written by Duncan Chappell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of law enforcement art and antiquity crime has in the past usually assumed a place of low interest and priority. That situation has now slowly begun to change on both the local and international level as criminals, encouraged in part by the record sums now being paid for art treasures, are now seeking to exploit the art market more systematically by means of theft, fraud and looting. In this collection academics and practitioners from Australasia, Europe and North America combine to examine the challenges presented to the criminal justice system by these developments. Best practice methods of detecting, investigating, prosecuting and preventing such crimes are explored. This book will be of interest and use to academics and practitioners alike in the areas of law, crime and justice.

Book Australian Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Sayers
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780192842145
  • Pages : 268 pages

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.

Book Australian Pastoral

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeanette Hoorn
  • Publisher : Fremantle Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781920731540
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Australian Pastoral written by Jeanette Hoorn and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Pastoral is a radical history of the pastoral landscape in Australian painting. As a primary means through which white settlement was described and legitimised, the pastoral was transcendent in European Australian art from the late eighteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. This book shows how pastoralism displaced all in its path, and how the pastoral landscape became a special art form in Australia and the primary means through which 'whiteness' and the taming of Australia was celebrated in painting. The book traces the history of pastoral painting through to the emergence in recent times of a black 'pastoral' landscape painting.

Book Australia s Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deryck Marshall Schreuder
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2008-02-07
  • ISBN : 0199273731
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book Australia s Empire written by Deryck Marshall Schreuder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's Empire is the first collaborative evaluation of Australia's imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern Australian society.

Book Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Download or read book Court of Appeals of the State of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Quarantined Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Frank Williams
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780521477130
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book The Quarantined Culture written by John Frank Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging work discusses the impact of the First World War on Australian attitudes to modernist art.

Book Painting War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Hutchison
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 1108471501
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Painting War written by Margaret Hutchison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the official art scheme as a key commemorative practice of the First World War.

Book Cold Case Files

    Book Details:
  • Author : Liz Porter
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2011-05-01
  • ISBN : 1466825081
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Cold Case Files written by Liz Porter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold case investigators scrape back paint in a renovated flat where a murder was committed twelve years earlier, and find a blood stain that leads them to a killer. Scientists extract DNA from crime-scene samples collected in 1973, and a 21st-century hunt for a triple murderer begins. A forensic dentist probes the mysterious death of an eight-year-old ancient Egyptian mummy. A document examiner reassesses the authorship of Johann Sebastian Bach's cello suites. In this collection of fascinating cold cases from Australia, the UK and the US, award-winning writer Liz Porter shows how modern forensic science can unlock solutions for crimes and mysteries unsolved for decades, and, in some cases, centuries.

Book People s   Howitt s Journal

Download or read book People s Howitt s Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book North Carolina Reports

Download or read book North Carolina Reports written by North Carolina. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Book Assessing Lawyers  Ethics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adrian Evans
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-11-15
  • ISBN : 1139493108
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Assessing Lawyers Ethics written by Adrian Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal practitioners operate in an environment of seemingly endless ethical challenges, and against a backdrop of diminishing public opinion about their morality. Based on extensive research, Assessing Lawyers' Ethics argues that lawyers' individual ethics can be assessed and measured in realistic frameworks. When this assessment takes place, legal practitioners are more likely to demonstrate better ethical behaviour as a result of their increased awareness of their own choices. This book advocates a variety of peer-administered testing mechanisms that have the potential to reverse damaging behaviours within the legal profession. It provides prototype techniques, questions and assessments that can be modified to suit different legal cultures. These will help the profession regain the initiative in ethical business practice, halt the decline in firms' reputations and reduce the risk of state-sponsored regulatory intervention.

Book Ecological Pioneers

Download or read book Ecological Pioneers written by Martin Mulligan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whenever the history of ecological thought has been written the contributions of Australian thinkers have been omitted. Yet Australia as a continent of extreme, rare and complex environments has produced a startling group of ecological pioneers. Across a wide range of human endeavour, Australian thinkers and innovators - whether they have thought of themselves as environmentalists or not - have made some truly original contributions to ecological thought. Ecological Pioneers traces the emergence of ecological understandings in Australia. By constructing a social history with chapters focusing on different fields in the arts, sciences, politics and public life, the authors bring to life the work of significant individuals. Some of the ecological pioneers featured include Joseph Banks, Russell Drysdale, Judith Wright, Myles Dunphy, Philip Crosbie Morrison, Vincent Serventy, Francis Ratcliffe, the Gurindji and Yolngu peoples, Bill Mollison, Jack Mundey, Val Plumwood, Michael Leunig, and many more.