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Antipodean Perspective - Selected Writings of Bernard Smith by Rex Butler (Editor); Sheridan Palmer (Editor); Bernard Smith (Editor)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art History Ser.
Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was unquestionably one of Australia's greatest humanist scholars and its finest art historian. His European Vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850 (1960) was a foundational text of post-colonialism, and in Australian Painting (1962) he set out the definitive history of Austral ...Show more
Geography NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum by David Butler; Tony Eggleton; Xiumei Guo; Fiona Tonizzo; Ken Purnell; Dora Marinova; Catherine Acworth; Karlson Hargroves; Peter Newman; Rex Cooke; David Lergessner; Simon Miller; Margaret Robertson; Heather Ruckert; Andrew Walker; Jesmond Sammut; Kate Thompson
Category: Reference
Interrogating the Real by Rex Butler
Category: Culture | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Slavoj eiuek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and ...Show more
Radical Revisionism by Butler Rex
Category: Art
A selection of the most important recent writings on Australian art which questions what is the proper role for art history? Is it merely to chronicle the truth of the past or is it actively to intervene in the events of records?
Slavoj Zizek : Live Theory by Rex Butler
Category: Fiction
lavoj Zizek is undoubtedly one of the world's leading cultural critics. His witty, psychoanalytically-inspired analyses of contemporary society have almost single-handedly revived the notion of ideology. His brilliant commentaries on the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and the 19th century German ...Show more
The Universal Exception by Slavoj iek; Rex Butler (Editor); Scott Stephens (Editor)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
The Universal Exception is the second volume of the selected writings of Slavoj Zizek-one of the most provocative and inspiring writers on culture at work today.Bringing together a broad selection of Zizek's major writings on politics, The Universal Exception showcases Zizek's formidable range of intere ...Show more
UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History by Rex Butler, ADS Donaldson
Category: Art and Design
UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History proposes a radical rethinking of Australian art. Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson do not seek to identify a distinctive national sensibility; instead, they demonstrate that Australian art and artists have always been engaged in struggles and creative ...Show more
Victory over Death - The Art of Colin McCahon by Rex Butler; Laurence Simmons
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art History Ser.
Perhaps at the origin of all thinking about culture lies the question of the afterlife. The artist makes their work hoping that it will live on after their death. The critic reads or looks at the work wondering whether a future audience will engage with it. Victory over Death: The Art of Colin McCahon t ...Show more
Zizek Dictionary by Rex Butler
Category: Culture
Slavoj Zizek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings - across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion - always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, the breadth of his references, his capacity for playfulness ...Show more
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