Impact of the Modern : Vernacular Modernities in Australia 1870s-1960s.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dixon, Robert., editor.

Kelly, Veronica, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diffusion of innovations.

Australia--Social life and customs.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Impact of the Modern brings together examples of new interdisciplinary work on modern Australian culture by 21 leading scholars. Their writings reveal an original account of 'modernising' Australia as dynamic and creative in many art forms, and interactively linked with international processes and ideas.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Contributors

List of figures

Australian vernacular modernities: people, sites and practices

IMPACT OF THE MODERN

SECTION 1 Erotic, exotic and primitive

1 Erotic modernities

2 Art dance, burlesque and body culture

3 Letters from Tangiers

4 Modernity denied

5 Jedda, Négritude and the modernist impulse in Australian film

SECTION 2 Impresarios, artists and celebrities

6 Vulgar art

7 'Written to tickle the ears of the groundings in garden cities'

8 Ambitious angel

9 Making it accessible

10 Pioneering cultural exchange

11 Bryan Robertson, abstract expressionism and late modernism in 'Recent Australian Painting' (1961)

SECTION 3 Cosmopolitanism and international performer networks

12 The Davenport brothers down under

13 London, New York and Hollywood

14 Cosmopolitans at home

15 Chasing modernity

SECTION 4 Sites of leisure, pleasure and consumption

16 Exhibiting ourselves

17 The Turkish bath in Australia

18 The circus and the amusement park

19 Pools and the modernising of the landscape

Index

Blank Page.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Dixon, Robert Impact of the Modern

ISBN:

9781743329092

OCLC:

1493004415