The Great Great Australian Dream
Author | : Robin Boyd |
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Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : Robin Boyd |
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Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : Robin BOYD |
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Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : Robin Boyd |
Publisher | : Text Publishing |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2010-03-29 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1921656220 |
Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In it Boyd rallied against Australia's promotion of ornament, decorative approach to design and slavish imitation of all things American. 'The basis of the Australian ugliness,' he wrote, 'is an unwillingness to be committed on the level of ideas. In all the arts of living, in the shaping of all her artefacts, as in politics, Australia shuffles about vigorously in the middle - as she estimates the middle - of the road, picking up disconnected ideas wherever she finds them.' Boyd was a fierce critic, and an advocate of good design. He understood the significance of the connection between people and their dwellings, and argued passionately for a national architecture forged from a genuine Australian identity. His concerns are as important now, in an era of suburban sprawl and inner-city redevelopment, as they were half a century ago. Caustic and brilliant, The Australian Ugliness is a masterpiece that enables us to see our surroundings with fresh eyes. This handsome anniversary edition is complemented by Robin Boyd's original sketches for the book and a new afterword by major contemporary architects.
Author | : Peter Boehm |
Publisher | : Slattery Media Group |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Real estate investment |
ISBN | : 9780980744798 |
The Great Australian Dream is a must-have for anyone considering entering the property market. As house prices soar, the 'great Australian dream' of owning your own home is very quickly slipping out of reach for many Australians, especially generations X and Y. This book arms you with the tools you need to confidently enter the property market. A practical, realistic and independent guide, The Great Australian Dream covers the spectrum of the home-buying process, from saving for a deposit and choosing the right loan, to managing your mortgage and becoming an investor.
Author | : Ernie Bridge |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Pipelines |
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Author | : Robin Boyd |
Publisher | : [Rushcutters Bay, N.S.W.] : Pergamon Press (Australia) |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : Stan Grant |
Publisher | : Quarterly Essay |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2016-11-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1925435369 |
In Quarterly Essay 64, Stan Grant takes a deep and passionate look at Indigenous futures, in particular the fraught question of remote communities. In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive, but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of Indigenous success - cultural, sporting, intellectual and social - that we see today. Yet this flourishing coexists with the boys of Don Dale and the many others like them who live in the shadows of the nation. Grant examines how such Australians have been denied the possibilities of life, and argues eloquently that history is not destiny; that culture is not static. In doing so, he makes the case for a more capacious Australian Dream. "The idea that I am Australian hits me with a thud. It is a blinding self-realisation that collides with the comfortable notion of who I am. To be honest, for an Indigenous person, it can feel like a betrayal somehow - at the very least, a capitulation. We are so used to telling ourselves that Australia is a white country: am I now white? The reality is more ambiguous ... To borrow from Franz Kafka, identity is a cage in search of a bird." —Stan Grant, The Australian Dream This issue also contains correspondence discussing Quarterly Essay 63, Enemy Within, from Patrick Lawrence, Nicole Hemmer, Bruce Wolpe, Dennis Altman, David Goodman, Patrick McCaughey, Gary Werskey, and Don Watson.
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Author | : Jim Kemeny |
Publisher | : Melbourne : Georgian House |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Artists' books |
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Volume of etchings on cotton paper, consisting of stylistic cartographic contours and figurative portraits.