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The World of the Book
Celebration of the book drawing on the collections of the State Library of Victoria.
Building a New World
Building a new world: a history of the State Library of Victoria 1853-1913 traces the story of the Library and the other institutions that came to share its landmark site - the art gallery, design schools and museums. This colourful tale of a century of institutional and architectural reform provides a fascinating insight into the development of Melbourne as Australia's cultural capital.
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The Melbourne Book Edition2
Now in an updated volume, with new chapters, new photographs and new tales of the city. This comprehensive history of Melbourne includes a rich re-telling of the past 173 years, an overview of the contemporary culture, an archive of the city's architecture and sculpture, and a whole lot more. Packed with over 50 stories, 700 photographs, and 368 pages of memories of the most liveable of cities.
Treasures of the State Library of Victoria
This publication of this book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the laying of the State Library of Victoria's foundation stone by the then Governor, Sir Charles Hotham, on the 3rd of July 1854.
The Memoirs of a Young Bastard
Tim Burstall, the celebrated director of Stork, Alvin Purple and numerous other definitive 'ocker' comedies, is credited with shaking the moribund Australian film industry out of its torpor. But long before that, in the early 1950s, he began keeping a diary to record the world of the group of 'arties' and 'intellectuals' he was living among in Eltham, then a rural area outside Melbourne, where cheap land was available for mudbrick houses and studios, and where suburban rigidities could be mercilessly flouted. Burstall was in his mid-twenties, with two young sons and an open marriage with his wife, Betty. Eager to become a writer, to go against the grain, he kept a record almost daily-of the ...
The Architecture of East Australia
The story of Australian architecture might be said to parallel the endeavours of Australians to adapt & reconcile themselves with their home & neighbours. It is the story of 200 years of coming to terms with the land: of adaptation, insight & making do. Early settlers were poorly provisioned, profoundly ignorant of the land & richly prejudiced towards its peoples. They pursued many paths over many terrains. From the moist temperate region of Tasmania with heavy Palladian villas to the monsoonal north with open, lightweight stilt houses, the continent has induced most different regional building styles.
Foreign Currency Volatility and the Market for French Modernist Art
Foreign Currency Volatility and the Market for French Modernist Art examines how the collapse of the French franc in the decades following the First World War impacted the supply and demand dynamics of the market for French modernist art.
