… Acquisition The Pickering Collection was purchased from the London fine art and library agents, Stevens and Brown, in 1961. Description The Pickering … Dyce, Alexander, Specimens of English Sonnets (1833) Fuller, Thomas, The History of the Holy War (1840) Greene, Robert, The Dramatic Works of Robert … Grenville, A Manual of Scandinavian Mythology (1839) Roberts, William, History of Letter Writing, from the Earliest Period to the Fifth Century …
… are books, but there are also several multi-volume works and two journals: Art in Australia (1916–36) and The Commonwealth (1898–1901). The collection … Zealand colonies collected by Robinson are: Bischoff, James, Sketch of the History of Van Diemen’s Land and an Account of the Van Diemen’s Land Company … Memoirs of New South Wales: By Various Hands (1825) Stephens, John, The History of the Rise and Progress of the New British Province of South …
… 1930s in Japan, founded by Muneyoshi Yanagi. The Mingei movement was an art movement which tried to discover and introduce the beauty of Japanese folk art and craft to a larger audience, not dissimilar to the British Arts and … There are many ways to study these sample books. You could research the history of the Silk Road and how techniques arrived in or were reverse …
… supports. They are designed to get students thinking in broad terms about art in nineteenth-century Australia before exploring National Library … the Atlas enshrined a settler-colonial view of white Australia’s history, achievements and prospects , which was to have a profound impact on the subsequent evolution of Australian art and national identity. Publishing Pictures Get students thinking about …
… the Atlas , the full digitised version is available here . Considering Art and National Identity Following an investigation of the art and artists featured in the Atlas , lead a discussion into its context … Which voices and images are missing from these representations of history, landscapes, cities and towns, and daily life? The patriotic song …
… Shaw is a curator and writer specializing in the exploration of American history and culture through textiles and dress. She has held curatorial and administrative positions at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, New Bedford Whaling Museum, The Textile …
… latest books. Each of their books captures a broad range of performance history, and each use different lenses to investigate the historical … Performance Studies from King's College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Research interests include Australian Drama (history and practice) as well as contemporary European and American Dramas. …
… Penguins, 1939–59 Penguin Scores, 1962–64 Penguin Plays, 1946–60 Pelican History of Art, 1953–1962 Of special interest is the Forces Book Club, which supplied …
… with an Australian setting, the first to draw upon Australian colonial history, the first to describe the lives of the Australia’s First Nations … writing. However, as Siddharta Mukherjee writes in The Gene: An Intimate History , ‘it is nonsense to speak about “nature” or “nurture” in absolutes … ways. The willingness to play, long hours of practice, dedication to one’s art, the desire and drive to create – all these matter too. Nonetheless, it …
… the budgerigar (in its ancestral form) was a totem animal, featuring in art, ceremonies, songlines and legends. Following 1840, when ornithologist … spies and world leaders. Flight of the Budgerigar is the authoritative history of the budgerigar, written by respected ornithologist Dr Penny Olsen, … in full colour. Jo Karmel, senior editor with a love for birds and natural history more generally, speaks with Penny Olsen, respected ornithologist and …