| Description |
vii, 133 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: The Making of Sorrow -- The Tree of Knowledge -- The Birth of Tragedy -- The Making of Time -- The Irony of Medicine -- The Origin of Exile -- The Origin of War -- The Birth of Architecture -- The Origin of Death -- The Birth of Politics -- The Birth of Wisdom -- The Birth of Agriculture -- The Fall of Icarus -- The Paradox of the Champion |
| Summary |
Fourteen mesmerising fables and the etchings they inspired draw us back to our origins in a garden of sorrow and exile, death and renewal, beauty and melancholy. John Hughes re-imagines a series of fables in which Australian animals take on human qualities, as thief and actor, warrior and poet, farmer and merchant. These are reverse fables - in the way that the Antipodes reverse northern hemisphere logic - that cast us back to the flux at the beginning of the world; inchoate nature, the world in a state of formation, the garden and the inferno. These are New World stories. Accompanied by artist Marco Luccio's darkly wry etchings, this collaboration between two artists is as unique as the stories it contains |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Marco Luccio's etchings exhibited 8 November to 1 December 2013, Steps Gallery, Carlton |
| Audience |
General |
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Tertiary/Undergraduate |
| Subject |
Hughes, John, 1961-
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Animals -- Folklore.
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Animals -- Australia -- Fiction.
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Australian essays -- 21st century.
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Australian fiction -- 21st century.
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Australian literature -- 21st century.
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Fables, Australian -- 21st century.
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Fables, Australian.
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| Genre/Form |
Fables.
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Fiction.
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| Author |
Luccio, Marco, 1969- illustrator
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| LC no. |
2014407379 |
| ISBN |
9781742585147 (hardback) |
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