Beautiful lies : notes towards a history of Australia / Peter Milne
- Bib ID:
- 5155803
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Milne, Peter, 1960-, artist, photographer
- Description:
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- Brisbane, Queensland : Queensland Centre for Photography ; [St Peters, N.S.W.] : T&G Publishing, 2011
- 120 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 x 31 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780977579075
- Summary:
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In Beautiful Lies Peter Milne creates allegorical, visual narratives out of the strangely rich and conflicted history of a young nation still struggling to understand itself. The individual projects employ a wide range of visual languages, formal elements and subject matters but they all share a central concern with the possibilities for reinterpretation of historical narrative through visual allegory. The key theme in the work is the human dynamics involved in the pursuit of power, particularly the tension between utopian idealism and the corrupting disillusionment that inevitably accompanies any successful attainment of authority. Beautiful Lies is intended to be a series of cautionary tales - more emotional than evidentiary. Like the actual historical events it interprets, it is comically improbable (and perhaps just a little sad). -M.33 website, viewed April 2018.
- Partial contents:
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- Peter Milne: collage as global economy / Michael Stone-Richards
- Cutting to the punchline: Milne's montage as metafiction / Courtney Pedersen
- Maladroit simulations, or, The art of not letting the truth get in the way of a good story / Darren Tofts
- Notes:
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- Editor, Maurice Ortega ; photo editor, Helen Frajman ; art direction, Gianni Frinzi ; design and production, Camilla Birkeland; texts, Peter Milne, Michael Stone-Richards ; Darren Tofts ; Courtney Pedersen.
- In slip case.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
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- Notes towards a history of Australia
- Peter Milne Beautiful lies
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2011
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