Australian Art - General
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# 15948
HORNAGE, Bill
Ern Malley and the “Angry Penguins”
Being a review of the greatest hoax in Australia’s literary history, and the subsequent ‘Indecency Trial’. Lismore: W. Hornage, [1945]. Octavo, wrappers illustrated with a sour-faced penguin, 20pp, small tear to upper margin of front wrapper and most pages, a small puncture hole and occasional waterstaining. A scarce pamphlet, complete and overall an acceptable copy, …
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# 15768
JOPPIEN, Rüdiger and SMITH, Bernard
The art of Captain Cook’s voyages. Volumes one and two.
Volume one : the voyage of the Endeavour 1768 – 1771. With a descriptive catalogue of all the known drawings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and the original engravings associated with them. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985 (1986 reprint). Folio, cloth in dustjacket, pp. xv; 247, illustrated. Volume two : the voyage of …
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# 15424
Melba’s gift book of Australian art and literature
Melbourne : George Robertson, c. 1915. Quarto, lettered cloth, pp. 176, colour and black white plates. Fundraising book from the Great War “The entire profits from the sale of this book will be devoted by Madam Melba to the Belgian Relief Fund”. Literary contributors include Ethel Turner, Henry Lawson, Tarella Quin, Dorothea Mackellar, Edward Vidler, …
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# 15939
Catalogue of an exhibition of Australian and Pacific material from the Nan Kivell Collection
in the National Library of Australia. Arranged by the Libraries Board of South Australia for the Second Adelaide Festival of Arts, March 17 – 31, 1962. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, unpaginated, foreword by Prime Minister Menzies, lengthy catalogue, illustrations. A major exhibition of rare Australian books, watercolours and ephemera.
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# 14699
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Forty-Five.
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1932. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, 66pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a fine copy. Features essay by Gabriel Thorne on the Future of the Theatre; an article on Will Ashton's Paintings by Lionel Lindsay, among others as well as …
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# 14660
HINDS, John (1950 - )
This ferral Australis!
How Terra Australis (a utopian terra nullius) became Ferral Australis (a dystopian terra numbskullius!) by Mr. John Hinds Esq. 2014 or … an ironic meta-narrative on the pluralist hybridity of the hegemonic colonialistic simulacra, referencing the semiotic intertextuality of a paradigmic Shakespearean narratology. A hyper-critical poststructuralist pastiche on the metaphysical extraction of urine! Melbourne : …