Browsing No 249 - March 2003 by Title
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Advances, Contents, Letters, Imprints and Contributors
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After Us the Savage God. "Charles Conder: The Last Bohemian" by Ann Galbally. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Ann Galbally's splendid new biography of Conder evokes the various artistic and literary milieux between which this sad, beautiful man moved with ease - sleeping for weeks on other people's sofas, surviving on handouts, ... -
The Albertine Motif. "The French Tutor" by Judith Armstrong. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)The protagonist of Judith Armstrong's first novel, Emily King, is beautiful, blonde and bilingual, having spent several early years in Paris. As an undergraduate, she suffers disillusionment when her hopes for a burgeoning ... -
Angels of Breath. "Portrait in Skin" by Kevin Brophy" and "The Islanders" by Andrew Sant. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)There is a story that when the saxophonist John Coltrane remarked to his bandleader Miles Davis that he didn't know how to make his solos shorter, the trumpeter replied, 'Take the instrument out of your mouth'. Knowing ... -
Art in Brief. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)This items provides brief reviews of "Elwyn Lynn: Metaphor + Texture" by Peter Pinson; "Ivor Hele: The Productive Artist" by Jane Hylton; "Wimmera: The Work of Philip Hunter" by Ashley Crawford; "Our Country: Australian ... -
Bestsellers / Subscription.
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Breaking the Ice. "Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files" by Mara Moustafine. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Harbin is a city in north China. In the 1920s it was a city of Russians: workers and their families associated with the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER), effectively a Russian colony in Manchuria; Jews who had fled from Tsarist ... -
The Brightest of True Names: A Sketch Portrait of Fred Williams. [essay]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)For McCaughey, Fred Williams remains the brightest of the true names. Two decades after his death, his art has taken on an epic quality, the long struggle to realise fully the extremes and the norm of the Australian ... -
Catholic Daydreams. [poem]
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Cogwheel and Blood. "Robert Klippel" by Deborah Edwards. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Histories of Australian Art have usually been histories only of painting. So Robert Klippel's sculptures and drawings are too little known outside the world of ardent collectors and art museums. Yet they might be aesthetically ... -
Complex by the Yarra. "The Place Across the River: The Story of the Building of the Victorian Arts Centre" by Vicki Fairfax. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)The Victorian Arts Centre is not the Sydney Opera House, but, in its humbler way, it is also a miraculous creation. The reader of Vicki Fairfax's account will be struck by the serendipitous way in which the institution ... -
Dazzling Complexes. "After Electra: Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction" by Eden Liddelow. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)This book continues the conversation between psycholanalysis and literature, drawing on Klein, Kristeva, Deleuze and Guattari to frame the work of twentieth-century women writers in the psycho-pathology of their time. The ... -
Diary.
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)In late January, inspired by 'The Abuse of Beauty', a series of lectures by the American philosopher Arthur Danto, Domenico de Clario - one of Australia's foremost artists and Head of the School of Visual Arts at Edith ... -
Downmarket Derring-Do. "White Dog" by Peter Temple. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)"White Dog", an extract from which appeared in "Best Australian Stories 2002", is the fourth novel in the Jack Irish series. This time around our hero is called upon to find out whether the capricious, unstable artist ... -
Endangered Species. "Australian Short Fiction: A History" by Bruce Bennett. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)This book has been much anticipated and desired. Now, when asked by anxious students for something to read on the Australian short story, I can finally make a satisfactory response. Of course, I would still want them to ... -
Festival Days.
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)'What do women want?' Even if Sigmund Freud didn't have writers' festivals in mind when he framed his famous question, it is apt enough in the context of the many pleasant-faced, intelligent-looking, female ticket-holders ... -
A First-Rate Gothic Man. "Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes" by Brian Andrews. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)"Creating a Gothic Paradise" takes the form of a series of essays and exhaustive and extensively illustrated catalogue entries. An introduction to the subject by Pugin scholar Rosemary Hill is followed by several essays ... -
Gallery Notes.
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Christopher Menz, who has now curated and written the catalogues for two splendid Morris exhibitions for the Art Gallery of South Australia, concerns himself more with Morris's designs than his poetry. But the characteristic ... -
Heart of Darkness. "Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia" by Anne Gray (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)This anthology has been astutely edited for a general readership, with the writing pared back and devoid of artspeak. Texts range from 250 to 750 words, and are as varied as the works themselves. The complexity of original ... -
Here Be Mermaids. [poem]
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