| Description |
189 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Preface: This one's from the heart / Sarah Bodman -- Introduction: Books teach / Peter Lyssiotis, Monica Oppen -- 1. The beginning -- America: a prophecy / William Blake -- 2. Across two World Wars 1918-1950 -- essay: 'the stupidest times that have ever been' / Walter Struve -- Cause of the War - German atrocities - Voice of Germany / Norman Lindsay -- Gorod: Stikhi / Aleksandr Rubakin, Natalia Goncharova -- About 2 / El Lissitzky -- Das gesicht der herrschenden klasse / George Grosz -- Die Kunst ist in Gefahr / George Grosz, Wieland Herzfelde -- Ecce homo / George Grosz -- Abrechnung folgt! / George Grosz -- Umbra vitae / Georg Heym, Ernst Kirchner -- Die neue stadt / Josef Luitpold, Otto Schatz -- Hintergrund / George Grosz -- Der Mensch ist kein Haustier / Stephen Lackner, Max Beckmann -- Anti-fascist exhibition / The Contemporary Art Society of Australia -- 'Und sie bewegt sich doch!' Freie Deutsche dichtung / Oskar Kokoshka (ed.), John Heartfield -- War or peace / Noel Counihan -- My book of tales / Cerise Ward -- 3. Cold war in a nuclear era: alienation and engagement 1960-1990 -- essay: Distant wars, cool screen / Scott McQuire -- Pornografie / Klaus Staeck -- Action man story / Ian Howard -- Supression=Alienation=Oppression / Glenn Clarke -- Journey of a wise electron and other stories - Three cheers for civilization / Peter Lyssiotis -- The crossroads novelty corp spring catalog / Paul Zelevansky -- Prophesy panorama (a cultural nightmare) / Michael Peven -- In the second half of the 20th century / James Casebere -- The book of slab / Ted Hopkins -- Portraits / Sonia Balassanian -- The products of wealth / Peter Lyssiotis -- Names have been changed to protect the guilty / Jean Pinataro -- The battle within / Helen Malone -- 4. Imperialism, fundamentalism, democracy, oil and its shadow, 1990 to the present -- essay: The end of everything else / Humphrey McQueen -- Global family / Michael Peven -- Sim war / Brad Freeman -- A guide to Antipodea / Francois Deschamps -- Diary of images: it's still time to mourn / Josely Carvalho -- Homeland / Peter Lyssiotis, Noga Freiberg -- A gardener at midnight: travels in the Holy Land / Peter Lyssiotis, Brian Castro -- War cut / Gerhard Richter -- Come again / Robert Frank -- Ideas in pictures #5 / Colin Matthes (ed.) -- Instant history / Richard Tipping -- Lessons in dictation / Noreen Grahame -- 7 disrupted interviews with history / Peter Lyssiotis -- How to spot a terrorist: a citizen's pocket guide -- Darwin 'the pflight of the paper balloons' / Codex Event 4 -- A dog ate my homework / Susan Goddard -- Proposal for new Australian landforms / Doug Spowart -- Would you like fries with that? - Pinstripe parasite - Free hugs / Glen Smith -- My little book / Cerise Ward -- Eyewitness / Peter Lyssiotis, Theo Strasser -- Red white (black) and blue / Kirk Crawford-Watts -- The story of the Bible Vol. III / Ross McMaster -- Stabat Mater / Monica Oppen -- When the soldiers / Monica Oppen -- Wounds / Anne Twigg -- 5. Along the tangent: books on the edge -- essay: Encounter / Des Cowley -- Industrial woman / Jas Duke, Peter Lyssiotis, Vivienne Méhes -- The graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar / Eric Stover, Gilles Peress -- Using shadows - Remembrance / Peter Lyssiotis, Theo Strasser, Robert Colvin -- If his voice be true / Peter Lyssiotis, Anne Twigg -- Given / Tim Mosely -- Elegy to lost times / Caren Florance -- Boys will be boys / Travis Paterson -- Become / Telfer Stokes -- Two gun Jesus - Religious convictions / Ross McMaster |
| Summary |
The publication of this catalogue is timely as interest in the field of book arts, both locally and internationally continues to grow |
| Analysis |
Australian |
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Australian essays & speeches (Australia) |
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Social history (Australia) |
| Notes |
"An exhibition 26th September-26th November 2011, Monash University Rare Books Library within the Sir Louis Matheson Library, Building 4 Clayton Campus Wellington Road, Clayton, Melbourne Australia" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index |
| Notes |
An exhibition 26th September-26th November 2011, Monash University Rare Books Library within the Sir Louis Matheson Library, Building 4 Clayton Campus Wellington Road, Clayton, Melbourne Australia |
| Subject |
Monash University Rare Books Library -- Exhibitions
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Monash University. Library -- Exhibitions.
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Artists' books -- Australia -- Exhibitions.
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Book design.
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Politics in art -- Exhibitions.
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Social problems in art -- Exhibitions.
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Artists' books.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Lyssiotis, Peter.
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Oppen, Monica.
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Struve, Walter, 1935-
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Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem.
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Monash University. Library.
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| ISBN |
9780987160607 (paperback) |
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9780987160652 |
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