| Description |
94 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Paddy Bergin -- Ian Callinan -- Edmund Capon -- Terry Clarke -- Michael Connors -- Ross Edwards -- Simon Fieldhouse -- Mary Gaudron -- Robin Gibson -- Murray Gleeson -- Ken Handley -- J. D. Heydon -- J. W. Howard -- Michael Kirby -- Lou Klepac -- Dame Leonie Kramer -- John Lehane -- Janet McCredie -- Roddy Meagher -- Penny Meagher -- Brian Moore -- Margaret Olley -- Dr. N. A. Packham -- Cardinal Pell -- Ricky Ponting -- P. J. Ryan -- Pierre Ryckmans -- G. J. Samuels -- J. J. Spigelman -- Sir Laurence Street |
| Summary |
As Justice Roddy Meagher retires from the Court of Appeal after a long and distinguished career, he leaves us with this parting gift. It is, as one would expect, outrageous. It consists of twenty eight character sketches, or cheerful character assassinations of his friends and colleagues in the fields of law, art, academia and ecclesiastics. Some sketches are savagely witty, some are openly admiring: all are illumined by Roddy's spirit of irrepressible mischief-making. The accompanying thirty black & white line-portraits by architectural painter Simon Fieldhouse are in quite the opposite spirit. They are not caricatures. They are almost philosophical in their delicate way of capturing mood, personality and the lines engraved by the experience of life |
| Analysis |
Legal profession |
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Art |
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Judiciary |
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Academics |
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Howard, John, MP |
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Biography |
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Humour |
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Portraits |
| Subject |
Celebrities -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
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Politicians -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
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Lawyers -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
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College teachers -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
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| Genre/Form |
Portraits.
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Illustrated works.
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| Author |
Fieldhouse, Simon.
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| ISBN |
187678055X paperback |
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1876780568 hardback |
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