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ItemNo Preview AvailableCine cartográfico(LaFuga, 2017)
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ItemIan Fairweather A Life in Letters(Text Publishing Melbourne Australia, 2019-10-01)When he died in 1974 after a long period of self-imposed austerity and improvisation on Bribie Island, Queensland, Ian Fairweather was at the apex of his fame. He had been called 'our greatest painter', and his works were keenly sought by galleries, collectors and artists. Born in 1891 in Scotland, Fairweather had lived a peripatetic life, forever seeking the right place to settle. He was a prodigious and idiosyncratic letter writer -wryly documenting for friends and family members his travels, his struggles with his painting and Chinese translations, and the changing conditions on Bribie, as well as commenting on literature and world affairs. Seven hundred of the painter's letters are known to be in existence, and in their selection Claire Roberts and John Thompson have created the definitive volume of Fairweather's correspondence: the closest thing to an autobiography of one of Australia's most important and enduring artists.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableArt from Milingimbi( 2016-11-01)This book presents - for the first time - the exquisite bark paintings by 15 artists, as well as ceremonial and utilitarian objects, from the small island community of Milingimbi in far northern Australia.
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ItemLook at the Lake(Puncher & Wattmann, 2018-05-08)This is a book about deep history and living in the moment; beauty and poverty; comic discovery and tragic loss. Kevin Brophy writes about people and place like no-one else. Research Statement: This work is in the field of Creative Writing (FOR 190402). its contexts are multiple and complex. They are: poetry by white writers about Aboriginal Australia, poetry on the desert landscape of Australia, on isolation in the outback, and on life in an Aboriginal community. The research aim is to make a book of poems that will work powerfully in an aesthetic and linguistic sense while exposing intimately a truthful picture of how it is to live in a desert landscape and a remote Aboriginal community. There has never been such a book of poems written in Australia, produced through negotiation with the local people of the community. The new knowledge this book aims to provide is to stand as a test of whether it is possible to write truthfully, powerfully, intimately and respectfully about being a white person in an Aboriginal community and environment. The publication of these poems by an important Press and favourable critical reception in Australian Book Review, the Australian and the Australian Poetry Review are all evidence of excellence.
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ItemThe Life of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy(Officina Libraria, 2019-12-04)The first biography of Giovanni Morelli, one of the founding fathers of modern art history and of connoisseurship - An intriguing biography of a man who trained as a physician, was soon a patriot and ended up as an influential senator of ...
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ItemInge King: The Memorial Gallery, with a foreword by Ken Scarlett(Skulpturenpark Wesenberg, 2016)
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ItemMelbourne Modern European Art and Design at RMIT Since 1945(RMIT Gallery, 2019)Melbourne Modern celebrates the contribution of European émigré artists, architects and designers who taught at RMIT after 1945. It surveys the work of Viennese architects, German, Czech and Baltic sculptors and silversmiths, and Dutch and British designers. It also includes migrants who arrived in Australia as children and Australian-born artists whose formative experiences in Europe influence their teaching. Collectively their stories illuminate RMIT’s model of inclusion. The profound impact of émigré teaching on the new pedagogy that developed in the 1950s through the 1970s placed the RMIT School of Art and Applied Art at the forefront of Australian art and design education. Melbourne Modern examines the legacy of this rich and educational experiment today.
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ItemGuida all'arte medievale in Finlandia(Edizioni della Rondine, 2014)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableSinging Death, Reflections on Music and Mortality(Taylor & Francis, 2017-04-21)Singing Death also covers a wide range of musical genres from medieval love song to twenty-first-century horror film music. The collection is accompanied by a website including some of the music associated with each of its chapters.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableSuperhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation(Routledge, 2019)Throughout the history of the genre, the superhero has been characterised primarily by physical transformation and physical difference. Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation explores the transformation of the superhero body across multiple media forms including comics, film, television, literature and the graphic novel. How does the body of the hero offer new ways to imagine identities? How does it represent or subvert cultural ideals? How are ideologies of race, gender and disability signified or destabilised in the physicality of the superhero? How are superhero bodies drawn, written and filmed across diverse forms of media and across histories? This volume collects essays that attend to the physicality of superheroes: the transformative bodies of superheroes, the superhero’s position in urban and natural spaces, the dialectic between the superhero’s physical and metaphysical self, and the superhero body’s relationship with violence. This will be the first collection of scholarly research specifically dedicated to investigating the diversity of superhero bodies, their emergence, their powers, their secrets, their histories and their transformations.