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Author :National Library of Australia Publisher :Canberra : National Library of Australia ISBN 13 : Total Pages :36 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (38 download)
Book Synopsis The Rex Nan Kivell Room by : National Library of Australia
Download or read book The Rex Nan Kivell Room written by National Library of Australia and published by Canberra : National Library of Australia. This book was released on 1974 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... In his capacity as Director of the Redfern Gallery and art dealer in London ... Rex Nan Kivell promoted and supported young artists and new ideas about art. Through the connections which he established with Paris and the wolrd of contemporary French art he made the Redfern one of the most influential agencies by means of which England was brought into contact with the best art of Europe ... Its not until we turn to Rex Nan Kivell's passion for collecting items of New Zealand, Australian and Pacific interest that one becomes aware of a different aspect of his personality ... Rex Nan Kivell was born in New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand ..." -- Opening address by Bernard Smith.
Download or read book Paradise Possessed written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1998 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays
Author :National Library of Australia Publisher :National Library Australia ISBN 13 :0642107726 Total Pages :22 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (421 download)
Book Synopsis Travellers Art by : National Library of Australia
Download or read book Travellers Art written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2003 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travellers Art presents rare, late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century drawings, watercolours, sketchbooks, diaries, hand-drawn maps, manuscripts and photographs, all of which were created while travelling. Selected from the National Library's collections for their first-hand immediacy and fidelity to the subject, they are the personal narratives of travelling artists, diarists and explorers.
Author :National Library of Australia Publisher :National Library Australia ISBN 13 :9780642107305 Total Pages :308 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (73 download)
Book Synopsis Remarkable Occurrences by : National Library of Australia
Download or read book Remarkable Occurrences written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Living with the Locals by : John Maynard
Download or read book Living with the Locals written by John Maynard and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with the Locals comprises the stories of 13 white people who were taken in by Indigenous communities of the Torres Strait islands and eastern Australia between the 1790s and the 1870s, for periods from a few months to over 30 years. The shipwreck survivors, convicts and ex-convicts survived only through the Indigenous people's generosity. They assimilated to varying degrees into an Indigenous way of life and, for the most part, both parties mourned the white people's return to European life. The authors bring fresh insight to the stories and re-evaluate the encounters between Indigenous people and the white people who became part of their families.
Book Synopsis Guide to the Collections by : National Library of Australia
Download or read book Guide to the Collections written by National Library of Australia and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping Our World written by Peter Barber and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in St Marc’s Square in Venice, the map in its nearly 600-year history has never left Venice – until now. Renowned for its sheer size - over 2.3 metres square - and stunning colours, the map was made at a time of transition between the medieval world view and new knowledge uncovered by the great voyages of discovery. Brilliantly painted and illuminated on sheets of oxhide, the sphere of the Earth is surrounded by the sphere of the Ocean in the ancient way. Yet Fra Mauro included the latest information on exploration by Portuguese and Arab navigators. Commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal, it is the last of the great medieval world maps to inspire navigators in the Age of Discovery to explore beyond the Indian Ocean.
Book Synopsis High Seas and High Teas by : Roslyn Russell
Download or read book High Seas and High Teas written by Roslyn Russell and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The rats I frighten away by throwing books or anything hard at the spot at which they commence their gnawing,’ wrote emigrant Janet Ronald in her journal kept aboard the Invincible in 1857. Packed in cheek by jowl with fellow passengers and crew, life on board the ships transporting convicts and free settlers from Britain and Ireland to Australia in the nineteenth century was rigidly defined by social class: lower-class passengers dined on homemade concoctions of mutton fat pudding and preserved potatoes, while those travelling first-class enjoyed elaborate multi-course dinners, including fresh meat, slaughtered on board. Navigating the social mores on these giant floating microcosms was only half the story. Amid the chronicles of flirtations and hijinks, odours and rats, nineteenth-century diaries capture tales of despotic captains, disease and domestic discord. From those sailing under servitude to emigrants seeking a new life, the people who braved the journey changed Australia.
Download or read book Heaphy written by Iain Sharp and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with Charles Heaphy's remarkable paintings and drawings as well as photographs and maps from the period, this engaging work tells the story of Heaphy's life and his art. A draughtsman, explorer, surveyor, gold agent, geologist, soldier, war hero, politician, land commissioner, and judge—even by the versatile standards of Victorian pioneers, Charles Heaphy had an unusually varied career. His biography tells as much about his own life as it does of the settlement of New Zealand. From his earliest surviving watercolor of bird life in 1839 to his last-known sketch, drawn on the back of an envelope in 1879, Charles Heaphy's art represents a remarkable visual diary of life as a settler in New Zealand.
Author :National Library of Australia Publisher :National Library Australia ISBN 13 :064210610X Total Pages :34 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (421 download)
Book Synopsis Changing Coastlines by : National Library of Australia
Download or read book Changing Coastlines written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Coastlines examines Australia’s cartographic history. The publication reminds us of the importance of maps, not only as locators of places but also for what they tell us today about the perceptions of Australia in the minds of those who created and used them.
Book Synopsis The People's Treasures by : John Robert Thompson
Download or read book The People's Treasures written by John Robert Thompson and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colourfully illustrated series of articles written to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the opening of the National Library of Australia. Discusses the library's collections which include early Australian manuscripts, documentary paintings and rare maps and books. Also discusses related topics such as using and interpreting the national collection. Includes chapter notes and sources. The contributors are experts in their fields, and include well-known historian Stuart Macintyre and Jonathan Wantrup, author of 'Australian Rare Books 1788-1900'.
Book Synopsis Uncovering Pacific Pasts by : Hilary Howes
Download or read book Uncovering Pacific Pasts written by Hilary Howes and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020, sought to bring together both notable and relatively unknown Pacific material culture and archival collections from around the globe, displaying them simultaneously in their home institutions and linked online at www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org. Thirty‑eight collecting institutions participated in UPP, including major collecting institutions in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the Americas, as well as collecting institutions from across the Pacific.
Download or read book Signed By Hand written by and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signed by Hand displays images of a variety of autographed items, all of which provide the reader with a small window into the life and times of the autograph's creator. Sixty-six autographed inscriptions are presented in this little gem of a book, which echoes the nostalgic gilt-edged 'autograph books' of old. See here a cheque for 100 pounds signed by Charles Dickens to his two sons, who migrated to Australia where they opened their own stock and station agency; a Royal pardon signed by King George III on 18 December 1800, and a note by Oscar Wilde to Mr Cartwright, suggesting lunch at the Cafe Royal to discuss the Australian rights to his plays. There are autographs by singers, dancers and visual artists, authors and poets, scientists, explorers, governors and politicians, aviators, activists, sportsmen and women, and Royal family members. A foreword is written by writer, lawyer, broadcaster and former politician Barry Jones AO who is a serious collector of autographs.
Book Synopsis The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia by : Alan Day
Download or read book The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia written by Alan Day and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-06-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day brings the expeditions to life, expressing the desires that drove great sea captains deeper into turbulent waters searching for caches of spice, silks, and precious metals. Covers a wide variety of topics, including _ Seamen from eight nations _ The recovery of storm wrecked ships _ Diplomatic treaties _ Priority of discovery disputes _ Military and civil explorers and surveyors _ Topographical features _ Geographical terms and places _ Rivers and river system
Download or read book Native Wit written by Hamish Keith and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lively memoir of one of New Zealand's wittiest art, urbanism and social commentators. Legendary art commentator Hamish Keith returned to much-deserved national attention when his television series and accompanying book The Big Picture seized the imagination of New Zealanders. The high-rating show and bestselling book rekindled fresh enthusiasm for the complex and fascinating story of our art heritage and cemented Keith's stature as one of our most engaging, confronting and witty cultural commentators. Native Wit, Keith's witty, revealing memoir, gives readers an insight into his well-lived, rich and immensely varied life. Whether as a confrere of Colin McCahon, the chairman of the Arts Council, husband of Oscar-winning film costume designer Ngila Dickson, bon vivant and accomplished chef or arch enemy of doddering bureaucrats, Keith has a dynamic personality and a trenchant analysis that makes him a pleasure to read.
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Download or read book National Library of Australia News written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Fleet Artist written by Linda Groom and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2009 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The life of George Raper and the discovery of his artwork of birds and plants dating from the time of the First Fleet."--Provided by publisher.
