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Monument
An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact. Monument is poet and critic Bonny Cassidy’s fourth book. Moving seamlessly through genres in its recovery of the past — part poetry, part prose, microhistory, memoir, travel writing, and sometimes counterfactual speculation — it traces the complex consequences of colonial settlement across the generations of a White Australian family of mixed origins and ancestries. Following the threads and detours signalled by research, objects and testimony, Cassidy makes a case for the value of ‘collected memory’ against the tide of settlement and silence. Inspired by the methods of Natalie Harkin’s archival poetics and Katrina Schlunke’s Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre, Cassidy’s Monument considers how non-Indigenous Australians might absorb First Nations truth-telling; and what this means for acts of speech, and writing. Should our memories serve the living or the dead, the past or the present? Why do we need new monuments in Australia, and where should we expect to find them?
Rethinking the Power of Maps
A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of map making and explores the promises and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today. Thought-provoking illustrations include U.S. Geological Survey maps; electoral and transportation maps; and numerous examples of critical cartography, participatory GIS, and map art. The book will be important reading for geographers and others interested in maps and their political uses. It will also serve as a supplemental text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses such as Cartography, GIS, Geographic Thought, and History of Geography.
Map As Art, The: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
This work is filled with 350 works by well-known artists such as Joyce Kozloff, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, and Olafer Eliasson. All are wayfinders, charting the highways and byways of the spirit and the topography of the soul.
State of the Union
"State of the Union" explores the relationship of artists to political engagement through a focus on the labour movement and trade unions. "The exhibition includes art that investigates industrial action and labour issues alongside the work of artists whose formal language draws upon the communication strategies of political activism. In addition to artworks that take trade unionism as a subject matter, the exhibition also considers artists who work ourtide of conventional exhibition contexts as a form of cultural activism, through which they advocate for fair working conditions." --P. 15.
The Matter of Air
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Architecture
Suburban tract housing is one point of reference in Dan Graham's work. Other architectural sources are corporate office buildings, rococo and baroque pavilions, Laugier's primitive hut, Victorian park gazebos, de Stijl exposition pavilions, contemporary bus shelters, and amusement parks. Through texts and a survey of projects, this book presents a body of work situated on the edge between popular and high art, and between art and architecture.
Octopus
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Totally Jacqueline Wilson
Four new stories along with information on the author, reading and film recommendations, quizzes, recipes and suggestions for activities such as dressing like Jacqueline and hosting a Jacqueline-themed party.
