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Michael Denholm Small Publishing Manuscript Collection
Collection of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, articles, magazines, and the manuscript of 'Small Press Publishing in Australia, the early 1970s'. Includes material on the career of Sir Robert Menzies and the manuscript of 'First Rights, a Decade of Island Magazine'.
Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand
Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand: Strategies and Sources is a research guide to the literatures of the two major countries of Oceania: Australia and New Zealand. Covering over 200 years of these geographically and chronologically connected countries, this guide contains references to many different types of resources, illustrating how the researcher is best served by using the increasing variety of research tools in combination with each other. The book emphasizes research methodology and outlines the best practices for the research process, paying special attention to the unique challenges inherent in conducting research on the literatures of Australia and ...
The Almost Total Death of Art Criticism
"This book, and its companion volume, 'Trusting in Providence', tell the story of writing critical histories of art and literature in a state and country where there is little interest in the life of the mind and where arts institutions, funding agencies and other bodies... think that there is little value in critical thought or in knowing anything about Australia's cultural past." -- Back cover.
Paper Empires
This book tells the inside story of Australian publishing over the past half-century.
Papers of Michael Denholm
Includes word processed drafts of: Criticising the critics: art and craft criticism and art and craft history in Australia 1950-2002 (545 pages). Art and craft magazines in Australia, 1963-1996 (239 pages). Trusting in Providence: a part autobiographical essay (69 pages). Includes correspondence, drafts, notes, press cuttings (mostly on Australian art), and subject files. Correspondents include Sarah Day and Sally McClymont.
When Modern Became Contemporary Art
This book is a portrait of the period when modern art became contemporary art. It explores how and why writers and artists in Australia argued over the idea of a distinctively Australian modern and then postmodern art from 1962, the date of publication of a foundational book, Australian Painting 1788–1960, up to 1988, the year of the Australian Bicentennial. Across nine chapters about art, exhibitions, curators and critics, this book describes the shift from modern art to contemporary art through the successive attempts to define a place in the world for Australian art. But by 1988, Australian art looked less and less like a viable tradition inside which to interpret ‘our’ art. Instead...
The Hirschfeld Century
I am down to a pencil, a pen, and a bottle of ink. I hope one day to eliminate the pencil. Al Hirschfeld redefined caricature and exemplified Broadway and Hollywood, enchanting generations with his mastery of line. His art appeared in every major publication during nine decades of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as on numerous book, record, and program covers; film posters and publicity art; and on fifteen U.S. postage stamps. Now, The Hirschfeld Century brings together for the first time the artist’s extraordinary eighty-two-year career, revealed in more than 360 of his iconic black-and-white and color drawings, illustrations, and photographs—his influences, his techni...
Southerly
Vols. for 1939-1944 include the Annual report of the Australian English Association; v. for 1945-1946 include the Annual report of the Sydney Branch of the English Association.
